[CLUE-Tech] RE: vim question: doing a large document using join (Todd A. Gibson)

[Mick Heath]

Todd,

I think fmt will do what you want.

fmt -w 80 <oldfile>newfile

Or, if you're within vi you can still use fmt.

Position to the first line of the file
Determine how many lines are in the file, let's say 345
Type 345!!fmt -w 80

This tells vi to take the next 345 lines, execute the text following the
!! as a system command, and replace the 345 lines with the output of
that command.

Hope that helps,
Mick

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