Re: Question about fold

[Pádraig Brady]

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