Subj : Re: text reformating
To   : All
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Mon May 19 2025 09:10 pm

On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:54:16 -0500
"Dan Clough" (1:135/115) <Dan.Clough@f115.n135.z1.fidonet> wrote:

> -=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dan Clough <=-  
> 
>  -=> Dan Clough wrote to Grant Weasner <=-  
> 
>  DC> man fold  
> 
>  SD> fold is an amazing utility.  Very helpful with text files.  
> 
> Indeed it is.  A classic *nix utility - do one thing, and do it well.
> 
>  SD> When I was publishing th FidoGazette, I used fold a lot in
>  SD> reformatting,  
> 
> Yes, very handy for making "wide" stuff fit on a 80x25 character
> screen. :-)

So many useful, and maybe not so useful utilities out there.

paste, will take 2 or more files and put them next to each other, like
a sideways cat :)

Talking of cat, there is also tac which will display a file from the
bottom up.

ncal is like cat but with the days down the side.

To randomly shuffle the lines of a text file you can pipe it into shuf

fmt is another text processor similar to, but different from fold.
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