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-=> Nigel Reed wrote to All <=-

 >  -=> 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. :-)

 NR> So many useful, and maybe not so useful utilities out there.

 NR> paste, will take 2 or more files and put them next to each other, like
 NR> a sideways cat :)

 NR> Talking of cat, there is also tac which will display a file from the
 NR> bottom up.

 NR> ncal is like cat but with the days down the side.

 NR> To randomly shuffle the lines of a text file you can pipe it into shuf

 NR> fmt is another text processor similar to, but different from fold.

Nice!  Didn't know about a couple of those, thanks.



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