I apologize for anything gmail's reply function does to this message. It's... opinionated.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Robert Thompson <robertt.thomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I personally would also find a pure simple single-purpose "unfold" useful. > > If you feel like going just a touch beyond a simple "unfold", you might want > to look at the fmt utility. I've seen several scripts in the wild that used > fold and/or fmt. A couple of them used fold to do the folding and fmt (with > really long maximum line specified) to unfold, which I thought was > strange... after all, if you've got fmt, you can use it to do both "folding" > and "unfolding", but whatever. I've looked at fmt and it is interesting, but it's not in posix or lsb so I'm not entirely sure what functionality to implement. (The gnu/dammit version's man page is a stub telling me to install the "info" command, which isn't happening.) > One thing to be aware of, it seems that there isn't a lot of consensus in > terms of the fmt arguments. If there's a standard, it looks like it's mostly > ignored. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fmt > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fmt&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/fmt-invocation.html Ooh, good links. Thanks. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net