🖥️fold

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Fold

# The fold command wraps each input line to fit in specified width.

fold -w 10
Hi my name is himanshu Arora

Hi my name
is himans
hu Arora

fold -w 72 -s draft.txt > newdraft.txt 
# Wrap the lines of draft.txt at 72 characters wide, doing so at spaces, not middle of word (-s).

# draw honeycomb
# Fill the entire terminal screen. Is COLUMNS or LINES are undefined run "resize"
yes "\\__/ " | tr "\n" " " | fold -$((($COLUMNS-3)/6*6+3)) | head -$LINES

# Generate a random 32 characters password
tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9~!@#$%^&*_()+}{?></";.,[]=-' < /dev/urandom | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

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