Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

["Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org>]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:55:54PM +0200, Thomas Anderson 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?

Given a file named SomeTextFile, you can do your own quick-and-dirty
like this:

   fmt --width=72 SomeTextFile | sed 's/^/\> /'

You can also use the clipboard selection with xclip:

    xclip -o | fmt -w 72 | sed 's/^/\> /'

This won't handle multiple quote levels or anything really complex, but
it should suffice for what you described.

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