fmt
Reformat a text file by joining its paragraphs and limiting the line width to given number of characters (75 by default). More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt.
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Reformat a file:
fmt {{path/to/file}}
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Reformat a file producing output lines of (at most)
n
characters:
fmt -w {{n}} {{path/to/file}}
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Reformat a file without joining lines shorter than the given width together:
fmt -s {{path/to/file}}
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Reformat a file with uniform spacing (1 space between words and 2 spaces between paragraphs):
fmt -u {{path/to/file}}
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