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On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:54:16 -0500
"Dan Clough" (1:135/115) <
Dan.Clough@f115.n135.z1.fidonet> wrote:
> -=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dan Clough <=-
>
> -=> Dan Clough wrote to Grant Weasner <=-
>
> DC> man fold
>
> SD> fold is an amazing utility. Very helpful with text files.
>
> Indeed it is. A classic *nix utility - do one thing, and do it well.
>
> SD> When I was publishing th FidoGazette, I used fold a lot in
> SD> reformatting,
>
> Yes, very handy for making "wide" stuff fit on a 80x25 character
> screen. :-)
So many useful, and maybe not so useful utilities out there.
paste, will take 2 or more files and put them next to each other, like
a sideways cat :)
Talking of cat, there is also tac which will display a file from the
bottom up.
ncal is like cat but with the days down the side.
To randomly shuffle the lines of a text file you can pipe it into shuf
fmt is another text processor similar to, but different from fold.
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