15 Nov
2012
15 Nov
'12
7:45 p.m.
James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com
[...] Joe does all i want other than coping with long lines. [I seem to recall a discussion about editors a few years ago and someone on here uses Joe]. Point is i want to save in long line form but view and edit in wrapped form - just like one does in gedit or leafpad. [...]
Why?
To view a wrapped file as unwrapped:
sed -ne 'H;/^$/{;x;s/\n/ /g;p;}' filename
or for some files, this will suffice and leave more gaps:
fmt -w2500 filename
Hope that helps,
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