On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote: >> 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$
OK, so I guess it should be sed 's/^/> /'. Anyway, experiment this method too, sometime. It's fun to know the possibilities with sed, awk and friends. Kumar -- Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
