>> Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that >> can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs >> quote emails with a preceding "> " character? >> >> I'm about to reply to a very long facebook message and want to quote >> it and make inline replies. But facebook only supports top-posting. >> I'd like to cut-n-paste the text I wish to reply, quote it with "> " >> and then cut-n-paste it back into my facebook reply message. I'd also >> like line breaks to be put in once every 80 characters (email >> standard?). > > How about passing the text through fmt -w 80|sed 's/^/> //'? > (Untested). That should do what you desire, as fmt would format the > paragraphs, and sed would substitute every beginning of line with a "> > ".
I got this output: to...@todu:~/code$ cat test.txt | fmt -w 80|sed 's/^/> //' sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unknown option to `s' to...@todu:~/code$ However, thanks for letting me know about the "fmt" command. I hadn't heard of it before. I'll experiment with your solution too, later though, as I also have to write my long postponed facebook reply ;). -- Regards, Thomas Anderson "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
