fmt
Reformat a text file by joining its paragraphs and limiting the line width to given number of characters (75 by default).
- Reformat a file:
fmt {{path/to/file}}
- Reformat a file producing output lines of (at most)
n
characters:
fmt -w {{n}} {{path/to/file}}
- Reformat a file without joining lines shorter than the given width together:
fmt -s {{path/to/file}}
- Reformat a file with uniform spacing (1 space between words and 2 spaces between paragraphs):
fmt -u {{path/to/file}}