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FOLD
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: February 2024
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NAME
fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified widthSYNOPSIS
fold [,OPTION/]... [,FILE/]...DESCRIPTION
Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -b, --bytes
- count bytes rather than columns
- -s, --spaces
- break at spaces
- -w, --width=,WIDTH/
- use WIDTH columns instead of 80
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fold>or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fold invocation'
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