fold-(1) manual page

Name

fold – wrap each input line to fit in specified width

Synopsis

fold [OPTION]… [FILE]…

Description

Wrap input lines in each FILE (standard input by default), writing to standard output.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-b, –bytes
count bytes rather than columns
-s, –spaces
break at spaces
-w, –width=WIDTH
use WIDTH columns instead of 80
–help
display this help and exit
–version
output version information and exit

Author

Written by David MacKenzie.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright

Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html >
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

See Also

The full documentation for fold is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and fold programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info fold

should give you access to the complete manual.