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1 | .TH FOLD 1 "24 February 1979" |
2 | .UC | |
3 | .SH NAME | |
4 | fold \- fold long lines for finite width output device | |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
6 | .B fold | |
7 | [ | |
8 | \-width | |
9 | ] [ | |
10 | file ... | |
11 | ] | |
12 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
13 | .I Fold | |
14 | is a filter which will fold the contents of the specified files, | |
15 | or the standard input if no files are specified, | |
16 | breaking the lines to have maximum width | |
17 | .I width. | |
18 | The default for | |
19 | .I width | |
20 | is 80. | |
21 | .I Width | |
22 | should be a multiple of 8 if tabs are present, or the tabs should | |
23 | be expanded using | |
24 | .IR expand (1) | |
25 | before coming to | |
26 | .I fold. | |
27 | .SH SEE\ ALSO | |
28 | expand(1) | |
29 | .SH BUGS | |
30 | If underlining is present it may be messed up by folding. |