Re: fold(1) needs and option to truncate

[Andrew D Jewell]

Just for fun, I added -t, --truncate to the fold at

http://alexautils.sourceforge.net

enjoy,
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At 8:41 AM +0800 6/8/02, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>  >> fold(1) needs and option not to fold, but to truncate. e.g.
>
> Paul> No, it doesn't.  Here's why:
>
> > >  fold -t would be the same as cut -c 1-80
> > >  fold -t -w 99 would be the same as cut -c 1-99
>
> Muhahahaha, you fell into my trap.  Fold does simple stuff that can be
> done by one liners of other programs.  I found another highly related
> fold-like thing for it to do, and also simpler than any other one
> liner.  Therefore you must admit that not adding my feature is not
> because it is especially bad, but say because these days you don't
> want to add any more features.
>
> When lines are too long and are messing up my screen or printer, I think of
> fold.  If the ends of the lines are worth looking at, I would use
> fold.  If not I would use fold -t.
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