GNU bug report logs - #6195
Feature Request for "fold"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: BJ Dierkes <wdierkes <at> 5dollarwhitebox.org>

Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 02:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: BJ Dierkes <wdierkes <at> 5dollarwhitebox.org>
Cc: 6195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6195: Feature Request for "fold"
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:28:14 +0100

On 15/05/10 02:55, BJ Dierkes wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to use the 'fold' utility to make prettier output from 'git-log'.
> 
> $ git --no-pager log --oneline | fold -s

`fmt` seems to nearly do what you want,
and with a little sed you can line up correctly:

  fmt -t | sed 's/^   /        /'

I'm not against a --indent option to fold
but with the overlap between fmt,pr,fold,sed
the barrier to new options to these utils is high.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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