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fold(1) General Commands Manual fold(1)

NAME

fold - Writes each file (or standard input if no files are given) to standard output whilst breaking long lines

SYNOPSIS

fold [-b|--bytes] [-c|--characters] [-s|--spaces] [-w|--width] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION

Writes each file (or standard input if no files are given) to standard output whilst breaking long lines

OPTIONS

count using bytes rather than columns (meaning control characters such as newline are not treated specially)
count using character positions rather than display columns
break lines at word boundaries rather than a hard cut-off
set WIDTH as the maximum line width rather than 80
Print help
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VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.6.0

fold (uutils coreutils) 0.6.0