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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2021
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NAME

fmt - simple optimal text formatter

SYNOPSIS

fmt [,-WIDTH/] [,OPTION/]... [,FILE/]...

DESCRIPTION

Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=,DIGITS/.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-c, --crown-margin: preserve indentation of first two lines
-p, --prefix=,STRING/: reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines
-s, --split-only: split long lines, but do not refill
-t, --tagged-paragraph: indentation of first line different from second
-u, --uniform-spacing: one space between words, two after sentences
-w, --width=,WIDTH/: maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
-g, --goal=,WIDTH/: goal width (default of 93% of width)
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Ross Paterson.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

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.

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