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fold

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- fold
fold:tldr:1a672 fold: Wrap each line to width "5" and break the line at spaces (puts each space separated word in a new line, words with length > 5 are wrapped).

$ fold -w5 -s ${filename}

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fold:tldr:76de3 fold: Fold lines in a fixed width.

$ fold --width ${width} ${filename}

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fold:tldr:84e0f fold: Wrap each line to width "30".

$ fold -w30 ${filename}

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fold:tldr:aff4d fold: Wrap each line to default width (80 characters).

$ fold ${filename}

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fold:tldr:ecb2f fold: Count width in bytes (the default is to count in columns).

$ fold --bytes --width ${width_in_bytes} ${filename}

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fold:tldr:f7e0f fold: Break the line after the rightmost blank within the width limit.

$ fold --spaces --width ${width} ${filename}

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