fold.1 (696B)
1 .Dd 2015-10-08 2 .Dt FOLD 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm fold 6 .Nd wrap lines to width 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl bs 10 .Op Fl w Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num 11 .Op Ar file ... 12 .Sh DESCRIPTION 13 .Nm 14 reads each 15 .Ar file 16 and prints its lines wrapped such that no line 17 exceeds a certain width. 18 If no file is given, 19 .Nm 20 reads from stdin. 21 .Sh OPTIONS 22 .Bl -tag -width Ds 23 .It Fl b 24 Count bytes rather than characters. 25 .It Fl s 26 If a line contains spaces, break 27 at the last space within width. 28 .It Fl w Ar num | Fl Ns Ar num 29 Break at 30 .Ar num 31 characters. The default is 80. 32 .El 33 .Sh STANDARDS 34 The 35 .Nm 36 utility is compliant with the 37 .St -p1003.1-2013 38 specification. 39 .Pp 40 The 41 .Op Fl Ns Ar num 42 syntax is an extension to that specification.