Mark Vytlacil wrote: > Most often I use pr to format text files or source code before > sending them to my 80 column ink jet printer. Many of these files > have lots of lines > 72 (or 80) chars long and I don't want to > truncate or bother to edit the file to fit my printer. The printer > wraps the long line to the next line, but that means that pr's page > length won't fit on the printer's page anymore, so I get an extra > page with no header and only a few lines. This seems stupid to me.
You might consider looking into using 'fold'. Here is an example. fold filetoprint.txt | pr Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
