** Description changed: 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 coiuld be used for - this purpose. + 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. + '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 + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_US.utf8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: coreutils
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