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6 fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
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9 fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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12 Wrap input lines in each FILE (standard input by default), writing to
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18 -b, --bytes
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22 count characters rather than columns
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30 --help display this help and exit
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35 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
36 Report fold translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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39 Written by David MacKenzie.
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42 Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
43 GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
44 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
45 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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48 The full documentation for fold is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
49 the info and fold programs are properly installed at your site, the
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52 info coreutils 'fold invocation'
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58GNU coreutils 8.22 October 2018 FOLD(1)