On 29/07/2022 07:25, Moritz Poldrack wrote:
Hello,I want to use fold to wrap plaintext emails that are not wrapped properly, I've run into an issue where, when run with -s, links that exceed the maximum width are still wrapped and therefore break. Is this intended behaviour? For example Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#describe-your-changes processed using fold -w 20 -s test.txt results in Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. https://www.kernel.o rg/doc/html/latest/p rocess/submitting-pa tches.html#describe- your-changes which is unexpected since a forced cutoff is not mentioned in the manpage. Am I missing something or is there a way to achieve that?
Both fold and fmt have overlapping functionality. fold is more lower level, using less context, and is operating as expected in this case. `fmt -w 20` may be more appropriate for your needs. thanks, Pádraig
