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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/fmt
In the transcript below, I don't understand why the last three lines
appear to be wrapped to a width.
$ # hostnames are four-letter proper nouns - RFC1178
$ realpath /usr/share/dict/words
/usr/share/dict/british-english
$ grep -x '[A-Z][a-z][a-z][a-z]' /usr/share/dict/words | fmt -w 70
Abby Abel Acts Adam Adan Adar Aden Afro Agni Agra Ahab Aida Ainu
Ajax Alan Alar Alba Aldo Alec Alex Alma Alpo Alps Alta Alva Amie
Amos Amur Andy Anna Anne Apia Arab Aral Ares Argo Ariz Arno Aron
Ashe Asia Audi Aves Avis Avon Axum Azov Baal Bach Baez Baku Bali
Ball Barr Bart Bass Batu Baum Bean Beau Beck Bede Bela Bell Benz
Berg Bern Bert Bess Best Beth Biko Bill Bird Biro Blvd Boas Boer
Bohr Bond Bonn Borg Bork Born Boru Bose Boyd Brad Bran Bray Bret
Brie Brit Brno Brut Buck Burl Burr Burt Bush Byrd Cage Cain Cali
Caph Capt Cara Carl Carr Cary Case Cash Cato Catt Cebu Celt Cerf
Chad Chan Chen Chou Clay Clem Cleo Clio Cobb Cody Coke Cole Colo
Colt Como Cong Conn Cook Cora Cory Cote Cray Cree Crux Cruz Cuba
Curt Dada Dale Dali Dana Dane Dare Dave Davy Dawn Dean Debs Dena
Deng Deon Devi Dial Diaz Dick Dido Diem Dina Dino Dion Dior Dirk
Doha Dole Dona Donn Dora Doug Drew Duke Dunn Duse Dyer Earl Earp
East Eben Ebro Edam Edda Eddy Eden Edna Eggo Eire Elam Elba Elbe
Ella Elma Elmo Eloy Elsa Elul Elva Emil Emma Emmy Enid Enif Enos
Eric Erie Erik Erin Eris Erma Erna Eros Erse Esau Etna Eton Etta
Eula Evan Eyck Eyre Ezra Fahd Faye Feds Fern Fiat Fido Fiji Finn
Fisk Foch Ford Fran Fred Frey Frye Fuji Gaea Gael Gage Gail Gale
Gall Gary Gaul Gaza Gena Gene Gide Gila Gill Gina Gino Gish Giza
Glen Gobi Goff Good Gore Goth Goya Gray Greg Grey Gris Grus Guam
Gwen Gwyn Haas Hahn Hale Hall Hals Hank Hans Hart Hays Head Hebe
Heep Hell Hera Hess Hill Hiss Hoff Holt Hood Hope Hopi Horn Howe
Huck Huey Huff Hugh Hugo Hull Hume Hung Huns Hunt Hutu Hyde Iago
Igor Imus Inca Indy Ines Inez Inge Iowa Iran Iraq Iris Irma Isis
Ivan Ives Iyar Izod Jack Jain Jake Jame Jami Jana Jane Java Jean
Jedi Jeep Jeff Jeri Jess Jews Jill Joan Jobs Jock Jodi Jody Joel
Joey John Joni Jose Josh Jove Juan Judd Jude Judy July June Jung
Juno Kalb Kali Kama Kane Kano Kans Kant Kara Kari Karl Karo Kate
Katy Kaye Keck Kemp Kent Keri Kern Kerr Khan Kidd Kiel Kiev King
Kirk Klan Klee Knox Kobe Koch Kohl Kong Kory Kris Kroc Kuhn Kurd
Kurt Kyle Lacy Lamb Lana Land Lane Lang Laos Lapp Lara Lars Laud
Laue Leah Lean Lear Leda Left Lego Leif Lela Lena Leno Lent Leon
Leos Lesa Leta Levi Levy Lila Lily Lima Lina Lind Lisa Livy Liza
Lodz Lois Loki Lola Lome Long Lora Lord Lori Lott Love Lowe Loyd
Luce Lucy Luis Luke Lula Lulu Luna Lupe Luvs Lvov Lyle Lyly Lyme
Lynn Lyon Lyra Mace Mach Mack Macy Magi Male Mali Mani Mann Manx
Mara Marc Mari Mark Mars Marx Mary Mass Matt Maud Maui Maya Mayo
Mays Mead Meir Mesa Mich Mick Mike Mill Milo Mimi Ming Minn Mira
Miro Miss Moho Moll Mona Monk Mons Mont Moog Moon Moor More Moro
Mort Moss Mott Muir Muse Myra Myst Nagy Nair Nash Nate Nazi Neal
Neil Nell Nerf Nero Neva Nice Nick Nike Nile Nina Nita Noah Noel
Nola Nome Nona Nora Nova Oahu Oder Odin Odis Odom Ohio Oise Okla
Olaf Olav Olen Olga Olin Oman Omar Omsk Oort Opal Opel Oran Oreo
Orin Orly Oslo Otis Otto Ovid Owen Oxus Paar Pace Page Park Parr
Pate Paul Peck Peel Pele Pena Penn Perl Perm Peru Pete Phil Piaf
Pict Pike Pisa Pitt Pius Pkwy Pogo Pole Polk Polo Pooh Pope Post
Pres Prof Prut Ptah Puck Pugh Puzo Pyle Rama Rand Raul Reba Reed
Reid Rena Rene Reno Reva Rhea Rhee Rice Rich Rick Rico Ride Riel
Riga Rios Rita Ritz Robt Rock Roeg Rome Root Rory Rosa Rose Ross
Roth Rowe Roxy Ruby Rudy Ruhr Ruiz Rush Russ Ruth Ryan Saab Saar
Sade Sadr Saki Saks Salk Sana Sand Sang Sara Saul Scot Scud Sean
Sega Sept Serb Seth Shaw Shea Siam Sian Sikh Sims Siva Skye Slav
Snow Soho Sony Sosa Soto Spam Stan Styx Suez Sufi Sung Suva Suzy
Sven Taft Tami Tara Tass Tate Tell Teri Terr Tess Thad Thai Thar
Thea Thor Thur Tide Tina Ting Tito Toby Todd Togo Tojo Toni Tony
Tory Toto Tran Trey Troy Tues Tull Tums Tupi Turk Tutu Tyre Ural
Urdu Urey Uris Ursa Utah Vang Veda Vega Vela Venn Vera Vern Vila
Visa Vito Vlad Waco Wacs Wade Wake Wald Wall Walt Wang Ward Ware
Wash Wasp Watt Webb West Whig Will Wise Witt Wolf Wong Wood Wren Wynn
Xmas Yacc Yale Yalu Yang Yank Ymir Yoda Yoko Yong York Yuan Yugo Yule
Yuri Yves Zane Zeke Zeno Zens Zest Zeus Zibo Zion Zola Zorn Zulu Zuni
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:33:58PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
In the transcript below, I don't understand why the last three lines
appear to be wrapped to a width.
Oddity made visible by having all words the same length. -w is *max*
width, info page clarifies that it targets 7% less in an effort to have
slack to reformat lines. At the bottom it's trying to shove more per
line so there's not a really short line at the end. Note that most of
your lines are 64 chars, the last 3 are 69 chars. fmt is meant for
typographical formatting, meaning its goals are aesthetic rather than
absolute.
Mike Stone
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