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fold is a Unix command used for making a file with long lines more readable on a limited width computer terminal by performing a line wrap.
Most Unix terminals have a default screen width of 80, and therefore reading files with long lines could get annoying. The fold command puts a line feed every X characters if it does not reach a new line before that point. If the -w argument is set, the fold command allows the user to set the maximum length of a line.
~/codeFactory$ fold --help
Usage: fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes count bytes rather than columns
-s, --spaces break at spaces
-w, --width=WIDTH use WIDTH columns instead of 80
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report fold translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fold>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fold invocation'
~/codeFactory$ fold test4.txt
fold is a Unix command used for making a file with long lines more readable on a
limited width computer terminal by performing a line wrap.
Most Unix terminals have a default screen width of 80, and therefore reading fil
es with long lines could get annoying. The fold command puts a line feed every X
characters if it does not reach a new line before that point. If the -w argumen
t is set, the fold command allows the user to set the maximum length of a line.
In the above example we have passed a text file to fold command and as you can see in output it wraps the line up to 80 columns.
Using fold with options:
1. -w: By using this option in fold command, we can limit the width by number of columns. By using this command we change the column width from default width of 80.
~/codeFactory$ fold -w50 test4.txt
fold is a Unix command used for making a file with
long lines more readable on a limited width compu
ter terminal by performing a line wrap.
Most Unix terminals have a default screen width of
80, and therefore reading files with long lines c
ould get annoying. The fold command puts a line fe
ed every X characters if it does not reach a new l
ine before that point. If the -w argument is set,
the fold command allows the user to set the maximu
2. -b: this option of fold command is used to limit the width of the output by the number of bytes rather than the number of columns. By using this we can enforce the width of the output to the number of bytes.
~/codeFactory$ fold -b50 test4.txt
fold is a Unix command used for making a file with
long lines more readable on a limited width compu
ter terminal by performing a line wrap.
Most Unix terminals have a default screen width of
80, and therefore reading files with long lines c
ould get annoying. The fold command puts a line fe
ed every X characters if it does not reach a new l
ine before that point. If the -w argument is set,
the fold command allows the user to set the maximu
m length of a line.
3. -s: This option is used to break the lines on spaces so that words are not broken. If a segment of the line contains a blank character within the first width column positions, break the line after the last such blank character meeting the width constraints.
~/codeFactory$ fold -w50 -s test4.txt
fold is a Unix command used for making a file
with long lines more readable on a limited width
computer terminal by performing a line wrap.
Most Unix terminals have a default screen width
of 80, and therefore reading files with long
lines could get annoying. The fold command puts a
line feed every X characters if it does not reach
a new line before that point. If the -w argument
is set, the fold command allows the user to set
the maximum length of a line.
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