[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone have a simple one-liner that can take a file 
> of text and reformat each paragraph to a new column width?

This *may* work for you (for column width of 70.)

perl -n00e'tr/\n/ /; print "$1\n" while s/^(.{0,69}\S)\s+//; print "\n"'



John
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certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order.       -- Larry Wall

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