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<html> <head> <title>fmt</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="fmt"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>fmt</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/FMT">FMT(1)</A></STRONG> User Commands <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/FMT">FMT(1)</A></STRONG> NAME fmt - simple optimal text formatter SYNOPSIS fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --crown-margin preserve indentation of first two lines -p, --prefix=STRING reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the pre- fix to reformatted lines -s, --split-only split long lines, but do not refill -t, --tagged-paragraph indentation of first line different from second -u, --uniform-spacing one space between words, two after sentences -w, --width=WIDTH maximum line width (default of 75 columns) -g, --goal=WIDTH goal width (default of 93% of width) --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR Written by Ross Paterson. REPORTING BUGS GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report fmt translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fmt invocation' GNU coreutils 8.30 September 2019 <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/FMT">FMT(1)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>