fmt(1) [bsd man page]

FMT(1)							      General Commands Manual							    FMT(1)

NAME

       fmt - simple text formatter

SYNOPSIS

       fmt [ name ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Fmt  is a simple text formatter which reads the concatenation of input files (or standard input if none are given) and produces on standard
       output a version of its input with lines as close to 72 characters long as possible.  The spacing at the beginning of the  input  lines	is
       preserved in the output, as are blank lines and interword spacing.

       Fmt  is meant to format mail messages prior to sending, but may also be useful for other simple tasks.  For instance, within visual mode of
       the ex editor (e.g.  vi) the command
	    !}fmt
       will reformat a paragraph, evening the lines.

SEE ALSO

       nroff(1), mail(1)

AUTHOR

       Kurt Shoens

BUGS

       The program was designed to be simple and fast - for more complex operations, the standard text processors are likely to be more  appropri-
       ate.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					  April 29, 1985							    FMT(1)

FMT(1)							      General Commands Manual							    FMT(1)

NAME

       fmt, htmlfmt - simple text formatters

SYNOPSIS

       fmt [ option ...  ] [ file ...  ]

       htmlfmt [ -a ] [ -c charset ] [ -u url ] [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Fmt copies the given files (standard input by default) to its standard output, filling and indenting lines.  The options are

       -l n   Output line length is n, including indent (default 70).

       -w n   A synonym for -l.

       -i n   Indent n spaces (default 0).

       -j     Do not join short lines: only fold long lines.

       Empty lines and initial white space in input lines are preserved.  Empty lines are inserted between input files.

       Fmt is idempotent: it leaves already formatted text unchanged.

       Htmlfmt performs a similar service, but accepts as input text formatted with HTML tags.	It accepts fmt's -l and -w flags and also:

       -a     Normally	htmlfmt  suppresses  the contents of form fields and anchors (URLs and image files); this flag causes it to print them, in
	      square brackets.

       -c charset
	      change the default character set from iso-8859-1 to charset.  This is the character set assumed if there isn't one specified by  the
	      html itself in a <meta> directive.

       -u url Use url as the base URL for the document when displaying anchors; sets -a.

SOURCE

       /src/cmd/fmt.c

       /src/cmd/htmlfmt

BUGS

       Htmlfmt makes no attempt to render the two-dimensional geometry of tables; it just treats the table entries as plain, to-be-formatted text.

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