fmt, htmlfmt - simple text formatters fmt [ option ... ] [ file ... ]

htmlfmt [ -a ] [ -c charset ] [ -u url ] [ file ... ]

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 .

/sys/src/cmd/fmt.c

/sys/src/cmd/htmlfmt

Htmlfmt makes no attempt to render the two-dimensional geometry of tables; it just treats the table entries as plain, to-be-formatted text.