From: Peter <pfheiss@philonline.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Text Reformatting
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 12:11:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030518041124.07222103AE@pfheiss> (raw)
Hi,
Some text I download for printing are formatted like:
Because of the publicity the Iraqi government has given to the
issue, Iraqis worry about DU.
which adds more pages for printing.
How can I with some command, left align the text to read
Because of the publicity the Iraqi government has given to the
issue, Iraqis worry about DU.
yet maintaining the paragraphs.
When looking at the text with a word processor they are all left aligned and
can only be changed manually line by line.
I came up with the sausage
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?
Thanks & regards
--
Peter
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next reply other threads:[~2003-05-18 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <pfheiss@philonline.com>
2003-05-18 4:11 ` Peter [this message]
2003-05-18 4:23 ` Text Reformatting CaT
2003-05-18 4:23 ` raihan
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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