From: James B. Byrne
> What I would like to discover is the functional equivalent
> of this:
> find /path/to/archives/*.html -print | xargs -I {} fmt -s
> {} > {}
> This syntax does not work of course because the xargs file
> name substitution only occurs once in the initial argument
> list of th
>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:09:59 -0400,
>> "James B. Byrne" said:
J> I am investigating how to split long lines present in a Mailman
J> generated html archives. Mailman places the email bodies within
J> tags and some users have MUAs that send entire paragraphs as
J> one long line.
A Perl mod
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Woodchuck wrote:
fmt -flagswhatever FILENAME >/tmp/mytemp
mv /tmp/mytemp FILENAME
You might find the tidy utility (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) handy
for this operation. It accepts the "-wrap N" option, which works great
in my toolchains, but I've never tried it on Mailman
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:09:59PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> CentOS-6.2
>
> I am investigating how to split long lines present in a
> Mailman generated html archives. Mailman places the email
> bodies within tags and some users have MUAs
> that send entire paragraphs as one long line.
>
>
Sounds like you need to loop through a bunch of files and process each
separately... so:
$!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/archives/
for $f in $(find . -name *.html)
do
fmt -s $f > $f.out
mv $f.out $f # rename back to original name
done
Untested. But this is basically what you want to do. And it's a g
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:09 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> CentOS-6.2
>
> I am investigating how to split long lines present in a
> Mailman generated html archives. Mailman places the email
> bodies within tags and some users have MUAs
> that send entire paragraphs as one long line.
Such users are
CentOS-6.2
I am investigating how to split long lines present in a
Mailman generated html archives. Mailman places the email
bodies within tags and some users have MUAs
that send entire paragraphs as one long line.
I have looked at fmt and fold but these assume a pipeline
from stdout to a fixed
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