This is the command reformat that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
reformat - tool to simple format plain ascii texts
SYNOPSIS
reformat [-h] [-j] [-l margin] [-p] [-w width]
DESCRIPTION
reformat is a simple tool to reformat plain texts. reformat reads from stdin and writes to
stdout.
Available options are:
-h prints usage information
-j switch justify mode: Each line of a paragraph will have the same width (see -w
option). To reach this, spaces (' ') will be added between words. Default: disabled
-l left-margin
Sets the left margin to left-margin. The margin is produced by left-margin spaces ('
'), no tabs will be used. Default: 0
-p Accept lines beginning with a whitespace as usual paragraphs, too.
-w width
Sets the paragraph width to width. No reformatted line will be longer than width (plus
defined margins) then. Default: 72
LIMITATIONS
· reformat isn't an intelligent program. It just reads a whole paragraph into a buffer
and then reformats it. The end of a paragraph is indicated by an empty line (may also
contain spaces or tabs) or at a line beginning with whitespaces (if you don't use -p
option).
Lines beginning with whitespaces are lines to keep untouched. Nothing happens with
them, unless you use -p option (as just mentioned).
· reformat doesn't look for hyphenation and hyphens at all. It won't make new lines when
reached a hyphen. reformat works word-by-word.
· reformat doesn't detect 'small paragraphs' (paragraphs without an empty line).
· Check for errors! If reformat detects a word with a length greater than the specified
width, it will abort.
· reformat has problems with control characters. Some text documents contain the ^L
character (0x0c), for example.
TODO
Planned features are:
· Fix some problems, see "LIMITATIONS".
· Add an option to declare a string that indicates "don't reformat" in the text. Would
be nice on reformatting emails, and don't touch the quoteas ('> '-lines).
· Add an option (e.g. -i) to keep indenting.
EXAMPLES
reformat < foo > bar
Reads text from foo, reformats and writes to bar.
reformat -l 15 -j -w 50 < foo
Nice justified, centered text from file foo on an 80x25 terminal.
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