NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

FMT(1)                          User Commands                         FMT(1)

NAME         top

       fmt - simple optimal text formatter

SYNOPSIS         top

       fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION         top

       Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output.
       The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS.
       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
       too.
       -c, --crown-margin
              preserve indentation of first two lines
       -p, --prefix=STRING
              reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the
              prefix to reformatted lines
       -s, --split-only
              split long lines, but do not refill
       -t, --tagged-paragraph
              indentation of first line different from second
       -u, --uniform-spacing
              one space between words, two after sentences
       -w, --width=WIDTH
              maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
       -g, --goal=WIDTH
              goal width (default of 93% of width)
       --help display this help and exit
       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Ross Paterson.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report fmt translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO         top

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fmt invocation'

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
       manipulation utilities) project.  Information about the project can
       be found at ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩.  If you have a
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GNU coreutils 8.27               March 2017                           FMT(1)