While it's not terribly good code, the attached perl script should do what you want. It will expect file names as the input, and will output to stdout; you will need to redirect to a file if you want to save it. So do something like: $ perl quoter.pl Guy_On_The_Internet.txt >quoted-GOTI.txt where "Guy_On_The_Internet.txt" is the text you want to quote, in a file. You can change the quote character and the number of columns by editing the values at the top of the script. I assume that input paragraphs come in blocks (i.e. a blank line between paragraphs) and that you want to keep paragraphs together, but don't care about how lines are wrapped. Output will have block paragraphs, too. I hope I'm not helping perpetuate some facebook flame war... best, Jeff p.s. I'm stuck on a windows machine right now, so please ignore the weird carriage returns in the script text. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Thomas Anderson<andersonthomas@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?). > > I use Debian Lenny. > > -- > Regards, > > Thomas Anderson > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur"
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