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.