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   Message 8,139 of 8,232   
   Dan Clough to Nigel Reed   
   Re: text reformating   
   20 May 25 08:16:35   
   
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   -=> Nigel Reed wrote to All <=-   
      
    >  -=> Dan Clough wrote to Grant Weasner <=-   
    >   
    >  DC> man fold   
      
    >  SD> fold is an amazing utility.  Very helpful with text files.   
      
    > Indeed it is.  A classic *nix utility - do one thing, and do it well.   
      
    >  SD> When I was publishing th FidoGazette, I used fold a lot in   
    >  SD> reformatting,   
      
    > Yes, very handy for making "wide" stuff fit on a 80x25 character   
    > screen. :-)   
      
    NR> So many useful, and maybe not so useful utilities out there.   
      
    NR> paste, will take 2 or more files and put them next to each other, like   
    NR> a sideways cat :)   
      
    NR> Talking of cat, there is also tac which will display a file from the   
    NR> bottom up.   
      
    NR> ncal is like cat but with the days down the side.   
      
    NR> To randomly shuffle the lines of a text file you can pipe it into shuf   
      
    NR> fmt is another text processor similar to, but different from fold.   
      
   Nice!  Didn't know about a couple of those, thanks.   
      
      
      
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