Public bug reported:
Strictly speaking this is an enhancement request.
fmt imposes an artificial limit on the maximum output line length
controlled by the -f option, which prevents using this tool to "join"
together all lines in each paragraph (for any paragraph size). This
operation is necessary to prepare plain-text for import into a word
processor such as LibreOffice, where "manual line breaks" (i.e. newlines
in the middle of paragraphs) are undesirable. If fmt could be run with
an effectively unlimited max line length, then it could be used for this
purpose.
Ideally there would be a way to specify an explicitly unlimited output
line length (say, -f -1).
SUMMARY:
'fmt -f 9999 file.txt' gives error "invalid width". It should accept an
arbitrarily-large value (up to max 32-bit integer).
Ideally, an option would allow specifying an explicitly unlimited (or
maximum) output line length.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 5 14:45:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64
(20100928)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: coreutils
** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick
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fmt -f <unlimited> should be supported
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