FMT(1)FMT(1)
NAME
fmt, htmlfmt – simple text formatters
SYNOPSIS
fmt
[
option ...
]
[
file ...
]
htmlfmt
[
-a
] [
-c
charset
] [
-u
url
] [
file ...
]
DESCRIPTION
Fmt
copies the given
files
(standard input by default)
to its standard output, filling and indenting lines.
The options are
-l n
Output line length is
n,
including indent (default 70).
-w n
A synonym for
-l.
-i n
Indent
n
spaces (default 0).
-j
Do not join short lines: only fold long lines.
Empty lines and initial white space in input lines are preserved.
Empty lines are inserted between input files.
Fmt
is idempotent: it leaves already formatted text unchanged.
Htmlfmt
performs a similar service, but accepts as input text formatted with
HTML tags.
It accepts
fmt’s
-l
and
-w
flags and also:
-a
Normally
htmlfmt
suppresses the contents of form fields and anchors (URLs and image files); this flag
causes it to print them, in square brackets.
-c charset
change the default character set from iso-8859-1 to
charset.
This is the character set assumed if there isn’t one
specified by the html itself in a <meta> directive.
-u url
Use
url
as the base URL for the document when displaying anchors; sets
-a.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/fmt.c
/sys/src/cmd/htmlfmt
BUGS
Htmlfmt
makes no attempt to render the two-dimensional geometry of tables;
it just treats the table entries as plain, to-be-formatted text.