From: raihan@citech-bd.com
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Text Reformatting
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 10:23:38 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223.1053231818@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Peter <pfheiss@philonline.com> of "Sun, 18 May 2003 12:11:19 +0800." <20030518041124.07222103AE@pfheiss>
Hi,
> cat file.txt | tr -s " " "\012" > file1.txt | fmt -u -w
> 105 file1.txt > file2.txt
>
> This does not maintain the paragraphs, however. Can sed do
> it and how?
If there's a blank line between paragraphs, it should work.
Otherwise it becomes more difficult. Try opening the file
in Vim and running the command
ggVG
which reformats the whole file similar to fmt. If you don't
like the result, quit without saving anything:
:q!
Yawar
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-18 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <pfheiss@philonline.com>
2003-05-18 4:11 ` Text Reformatting Peter
2003-05-18 4:23 ` CaT
2003-05-18 4:23 ` raihan [this message]
2003-05-18 7:54 ` John Kelly
2003-05-19 15:44 ` Stephen Samuel
2003-05-20 2:47 ` Peter
2003-05-20 9:59 ` Stephen Samuel
2003-05-19 2:25 Peter
2003-05-19 12:17 ` Amin
2003-05-20 2:46 ` Peter
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