[ale] Utility to word-wrap plain text?

[Charles Shapiro]

Oops, that'd be

echo $VARIABLE | fold - -w 72

-- CHS


On 3/28/07, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ooh, first post!
>
> echo $VARIABLE | fold 72
>
> Is the most basic thing you want.  You can of course look up fold(1) with
> your handy-dandy man(1) command.
>
> -- CHS
>
> On 3/28/07, Chuck Huber <chuck at cehuber.org> wrote:
> >
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> > Good morning,
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> > I have users of a web site submitting text in a <textarea> tag.  The
> > form is
> > later delivered to via email.
> >
> > The problem I'm encountering is that while the user types in the
> > textarea, words
> > are automatically wrapped within the space provided.  However, when I
> > receive
> > the contents of the tag, no word wrapping occurs unless the user
> > specifically
> > included a newline.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas on how I can take the contents of a bash
> > shell
> > variable and word-wrap it to, oh say, 72 columns?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >     - Chuck
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