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Old 10-01-2012
Word Wrap

When I cat a file that has several hundred characters in a line, the right hand side is truncated. How can I make everything displayed on my screen word wrap?
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Old 10-01-2012
Have you tried the fmt cmd?
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Old 10-01-2012
"command not found"
This is a stripped down version of some sort of unix running an appliance.
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Old 10-01-2012
What about command fold?
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Bye
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Old 10-01-2012
bash: fold: command not found

Thanks for the try.
Bob
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Old 10-01-2012
Code:
sed '' infile

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Old 10-01-2012
try

Code:
more <file>

also if you show a sample might be able to help you better.

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