# 20 minute script to take a text file
# and wrap the text in it to an arbitrary
# linesize --power of perl modules

# guts from perldoc Text::Wrap
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT use strict; use Text::Wrap; die "\n\nusage: \n\t $0 <filename> [column width]\n" unless @ARGV==1 or @ARGV==2; open(FH,$ARGV[0]) or die "couldn't open $ARGV[0] $!"; $ARGV[0]=~ /^([-\@\w.]+)$/; # word chars only my $clean_out=$1; $clean_out eq $ARGV[0] or die "bad char in filename $ARGV[0]"; local $/= undef; # read entire file at once my @text=<FH>; close (FH); open(FH, '>',"$clean_out.wrap") or die "couldn't open ${clean_out}.wrap for writing"; $Text::Wrap::columns = $ARGV[1] || 60; print FH wrap('', '', @text); close(FH);

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