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[ILUG] Remember pr? or Printing long lines of text

[ILUG] Remember pr? or Printing long lines of text

Paul J Collins sneakums at zork.net
Thu Apr 5 12:19:44 IST 2001


>>>>> "CD" == Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net> writes:

    CD> I seem to recall using pr to format long lines of text in a
    CD> file for printing.  Anything greater that 70-80 chars gets
    CD> truncated normally but piping through pr used to do it.  But
    CD> it doesn't work now!

fmt will do word-wrapping.

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