Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
Author: fernape (ports committer)
Date: Thu Oct 29 18:37:20 2020
New Revision: 367142
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367142
Log:
fmt(1): Add EXAMPLES section
Very small EXAMPLES section.
While here, remove reference to nroff(1).
Approved by: manpages (bcr@)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26947
Modified:
head/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1
Modified: head/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 Thu Oct 29 18:34:47 2020 (r367141)
+++ head/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.1 Thu Oct 29 18:37:20 2020 (r367142)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" Modified by Gareth McCaughan to describe the new version of `fmt'
.\" rather than the old one.
-.Dd December 1, 2017
+.Dd October 29, 2020
.Dt FMT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -89,10 +89,6 @@ Try to format mail header lines contained in the input
Format lines beginning with a
.Ql \&.
(dot) character.
-Normally,
-.Nm
-does not fill these lines, for compatibility with
-.Xr nroff 1 .
Was the behavior of fmt(1) really changed? If not, you could just
replace ".Xr nroff 1 ." with ".Nm nroff . ".
.It Fl p
Allow indented paragraphs.
Without the
@@ -159,10 +155,23 @@ environment variables affect the execution of
.Nm
as described in
.Xr environ 7 .
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Center the text in standard input:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ echo -e 'The merit of all things\enlies\enin their difficulty' | fmt -c
+ The merit of all things
+ lies
+ in their difficulty
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Format the text in standard input collapsing spaces:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ echo -e 'Multiple spaces will be collapsed' | fmt -s
+Multiple spaces will be collapsed
+.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fold 1 ,
-.Xr mail 1 ,
-.Xr nroff 1
+.Xr mail 1
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
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