OSF

NAME

fold − Breaks lines in a file

SYNOPSIS

fold [-width] [file ...]

The fold command breaks lines in the specified files, or the standard input if no files are specified, to have maximum width. 

FLAGS

-widthSpecifies the maximum width to which lines should be folded. 

DESCRIPTION

The default width is 80.  width should be a multiple of 8 if tabs are present, or the tabs should be converted to spaces using expand before using fold. 

Note that fold may affect any underlining that is present. 

EXAMPLES

The fold command can be used to prepare files to be joined side-by-side with paste.  You might want to display these two files, az and AZ, side-by-side:

aaaa bbbb cccc dddd eeee ffff gggg hhhh iiii jjjj kkkk llll mmmm
nnnn oooo pppp qqqq rrrr ssss tttt uuuu vvvv wwww xxxx yyyy zzzz
 AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD EEEE FFFF GGGG HHHH IIII JJJJ KKKK LLLL MMMM
NNNN OOOO PPPP QQQQ RRRR SSSS TTTT UUUU VVVV WWWW XXXX YYYY ZZZZ

The command line:

fold -32 az > az2; fold -32 AZ > AZ2; paste -d" " az2 AZ2

results in this output:

aaaa bbbb cccc dddd eeee ffff gg AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD EEEE FFFF GG
gg hhhh iiii jjjj kkkk llll mmmm GG HHHH IIII JJJJ KKKK LLLL MMMM
nnnn oooo pppp qqqq rrrr ssss tt NNNN OOOO PPPP QQQQ RRRR SSSS TT
tt uuuu vvvv wwww xxxx yyyy zzzz TT UUUU VVVV WWWW XXXX YYYY ZZZZ

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands:  expand(1)/unexpand(1), paste(1).