line length

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <160 at ohsu-hcx.UUCP> mkb at ohsu-hcx.UUCP (Marilyn Bushway) writes:
>If I have output of 132 characters and I want it to be 80 characters
>is there a unix command to change the line length???

See the man page for fold.  By default it wraps at 80 columns, so you
could just do

	fold <filename>

to wrap a file, or

	<program name> | fold

to wrap the output of a program.

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