NAME

       fmt - Reformat paragraphs from input files (or stdin) to stdout.

SYNOPSIS

       fmt     [-c|--crown-margin]     [-t|--tagged-paragraph]     [-m|--preserve-headers]     [-s|--split-only]
       [-u|--uniform-spacing]  [-p|--prefix]  [-P|--skip-prefix]  [-x|--exact-prefix]   [-X|--exact-skip-prefix]
       [-w|--width] [-g|--goal] [-q|--quick] [-T|--tab-width] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

DESCRIPTION

       Reformat paragraphs from input files (or stdin) to stdout.

OPTIONS

       -c, --crown-margin
              First and second line of paragraph may have different indentations, in which case the first line's
              indentation is preserved, and each subsequent line's indentation matches the second line.

       -t, --tagged-paragraph
              Like -c, except that the first and second line of a paragraph *must* have different indentation or
              they are treated as separate paragraphs.

       -m, --preserve-headers
              Attempt to detect and preserve mail headers in the input. Be careful when combining this flag with
              -p.

       -s, --split-only
              Split lines only, do not reflow.

       -u, --uniform-spacing
              Insert  exactly  one  space between words, and two between sentences. Sentence breaks in the input
              are detected as [?!.] followed by two spaces or a newline; other punctuation is not interpreted as
              a sentence break.

       -p, --prefix=PREFIX
              Reformat only lines beginning with PREFIX, reattaching PREFIX to reformatted lines. Unless  -x  is
              specified, leading whitespace will be ignored when matching PREFIX.

       -P, --skip-prefix=PSKIP
              Do  not  reformat  lines  beginning with PSKIP. Unless -X is specified, leading whitespace will be
              ignored when matching PSKIP

       -x, --exact-prefix
              PREFIX must match at the beginning of the line with no preceding whitespace.

       -X, --exact-skip-prefix
              PSKIP must match at the beginning of the line with no preceding whitespace.

       -w, --width=WIDTH
              Fill output lines up to a maximum of WIDTH columns, default 75.

       -g, --goal=GOAL
              Goal width, default of 93% of WIDTH. Must be less than WIDTH.

       -q, --quick
              Break lines more quickly at the expense of a potentially more ragged appearance.

       -T, --tab-width=TABWIDTH
              Treat tabs as TABWIDTH spaces for determining line length, default 8. Note that this is used  only
              for calculating line lengths; tabs are preserved in the output.

       -h, --help
              Print help

       -V, --version
              Print version

       [files]

VERSION

       v0.0.24

                                                   fmt 0.0.24                                             fmt(1)