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| author | Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> | 2012-04-05 17:13:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-04-12 22:46:51 +0200 |
| commit | 0092d5d88bb620885b88aa8b49b079b04066583f (patch) | |
| tree | f16aeb4d08428b60f19e55ec2f3c398fd9554995 /doc | |
| parent | 3d53e7fe1c31aa440cc9708c7c51db6b78c07653 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0092d5d88bb620885b88aa8b49b079b04066583f.tar.xz | |
fmt: accept new --goal=WIDTH (-g) option
Accept -g for BSD/Plan9 compatibility.
* NEWS (New features): Mention it.
* tests/fmt/goal-option: New test.
* tests/fmt/long-line: Rename from tests/fmt-long-line.
* tests/fmt/base: Rename from tests/misc/fmt.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document it.
* src/fmt.c (main): Accept the new option
(check_for_goals): new function to implement the operands
Based on BSD's and Plan-9's fmt programs.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 1fbf05116..a7e69d15c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2203,9 +2203,15 @@ between sentences to two spaces. @opindex -@var{width} @opindex -w @opindex --width -Fill output lines up to @var{width} characters (default 75). @command{fmt} -initially tries to make lines about 7% shorter than this, to give it -room to balance line lengths. +Fill output lines up to @var{width} characters (default 75 or @var{goal} +plus 10, if @var{goal} is provided). + +@itemx -g @var{goal} +@itemx --goal=@var{goal} +@opindex -g +@opindex --goal +@command{fmt} initially tries to make lines @var{goal} characters wide. +By default, this is 7% shorter than @var{width}. @item -p @var{prefix} @itemx --prefix=@var{prefix} |