Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!dmcanzi
From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: folding arguments
Message-ID: <4409@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 88 04:07:03 GMT
References: <3822@megaron.arizona.edu> <120@gsg.UUCP> <2091@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2091@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>
>     $ find $DIR -print | nroff | sed -e 's/  */ /g' | ...
>
>Since nroff right-justifies by default, we use sed to squeeze multiple
>blanks to a single blank so "while read" in sh will work.  (Not
>tested.)

Instead of nroff, I used the fmt command, like so:

find $DIR -print | fmt -1021 | ...

The fmt command may be a Berkeleyism.  1021 is the maximum width that
fmt allows me to specify on the two systems (BSD4.3 and Sun 3.2) where
I tried this.

-- 
David Canzi