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📖 NAME

fold – wrap each input line to fit in specified width

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Wrap lines at default 80 columns	fold file	📄 Wraps each line of file to 80 columns wide
Wrap by byte count instead of columns	fold -b file	🔢 Counts bytes (e.g., for multibyte characters)
Break at spaces only	fold -s file	🔪 Avoids splitting words in the middle
Set custom width	fold -w 40 file	📏 Wrap at 40 columns instead of 80
Read from stdin	echo "text" | fold -w 10	📥 Pipe input directly

📝 SYNOPSIS

fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...

📚 DESCRIPTION

Wrap input lines in each FILE, writing to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

• -b, --bytes — 🔢 count bytes rather than columns
• -s, --spaces — 🔪 break at spaces
• -w, --width=WIDTH — 📏 use WIDTH columns instead of 80
• --help — ℹ️ display this help and exit
• --version — 📤 output version information and exit

✍️ AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
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©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

🔗 SEE ALSO

Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fold
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fold invocation'

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