NAME
fmt - simple optimal text formatter
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output.
The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of width=DIGITS.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
-c, crown-margin
preserve indentation of first two lines
-p, prefix=STRING
reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the pre‐
fix to reformatted lines
-s, split-only
split long lines, but do not refill
-t, tagged-paragraph
indentation of first line different from second
-u, uniform-spacing
one space between words, two after sentences
-w, width=WIDTH
maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
-g, goal=WIDTH
goal width (default of 93% of width)
help display this help and exit
version
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for fmt is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and fmt programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
mand
info coreutils 'fmt invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 October 2018 FMT(1)