folding arguments
David Canzi
dmcanzi at watdcsu.waterloo.edu
Sun Feb 14 14:07:03 AEST 1988
In article <2091 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>
> $ find $DIR -print | nroff | sed -e 's/ */ /g' | ...
>
>Since nroff right-justifies by default, we use sed to squeeze multiple
>blanks to a single blank so "while read" in sh will work. (Not
>tested.)
Instead of nroff, I used the fmt command, like so:
find $DIR -print | fmt -1021 | ...
The fmt command may be a Berkeleyism. 1021 is the maximum width that
fmt allows me to specify on the two systems (BSD4.3 and Sun 3.2) where
I tried this.
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David Canzi
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