Formatting & wrapping on the terminal

Huh, who knew this existed:

cat <some-verbose-output> | fold -70
  • fold -s folds at whitespace
  • Also look at the fmt command, which seems similar to emacs’ fill-paragraph.
  • pr gives a pretty display with margins, headers, and page numbers.

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