[ale] Utility to word-wrap plain text?

[Charles Shapiro]

Ooh, first post!

echo $VARIABLE | fold 72

Is the most basic thing you want.  You can of course look up fold(1) with
your handy-dandy man(1) command.

-- CHS

On 3/28/07, Chuck Huber <chuck at cehuber.org> wrote:
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> Good morning,
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> I have users of a web site submitting text in a <textarea> tag.  The form
> is
> later delivered to via email.
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> The problem I'm encountering is that while the user types in the textarea,
> words
> are automatically wrapped within the space provided.  However, when I
> receive
> the contents of the tag, no word wrapping occurs unless the user
> specifically
> included a newline.
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> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can take the contents of a bash shell
> variable and word-wrap it to, oh say, 72 columns?
>
> Thanks,
>     - Chuck
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