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From: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: folding arguments
Message-ID: <125@gsg.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 05:17:55 GMT
Reply-To: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Organization: General Systems Group, Salem, NH
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>	% find $DIR -print | fmt | sed 's/^/cmd /' | sh
>
> It is a pity that fmt is hardwired with a line size of 72 columns.

I was very surprised when dmcanzi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (David Canzi) pointed
out you can specify a width to fmt:

	% find $DIR -print | fmt -1000 | sed 's/^/cmd /' | sh
				 ^^^^^
I checked with man pages for fmt over and over, guess what?  Another
undocumented feature!  I think you can only learn thing like this by
reading network news besides look into the source code.
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Paul Lew			{oliveb,harvard,decvax}!gsg!lew	(UUCP)
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