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unflow

What unflow is

unflow may be used to break paragraphs of text into separate lines. This is the logical opposite of pflow. Input comes from standard input and output is written to standard output. unflow may also insert leading tab or blank characters before the split lines.

Note that this filter only performs correctly on simple ASCII data. To use this with ATK data, invoke the delviews filter (or the command ez2text) first to remove the ATK style data and then pipe the result into unflow to split the data into segments as you want.

Quick reference

The complete command syntax is:

unflow [-b #] [-t #] [-w #]

where:

-b #Insert # blanks before each output line

-t #Insert # tabs before each output line

-w #maximum width of the output lines, including a linefeed and leading blanks and tabs. This defaults to 71.

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