On Solaris, the newform command modifies the format of a text file.

Description

newform reads lines from the named file names, or the standard input if no input file is named, and reproduces the lines on the standard output. Lines are reformatted in accordance with the specified command line options.

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Except for -s, command line options may appear in any order, may be repeated, and may be intermingled with the optional file names. Command line options are processed in the order specified. This means that option sequences like “-e15 -l60” yield results different from “-l60 -e15”. Options are applied to all filenames on the command line.

Syntax

newform [-s] [-itabspec] [-otabspec] [-bn] [-en] [-pn] [-an] [-f] [-cchar] [-ln] [filename]…

Options

Examples

newform -f myfile.txt

Display the tab specification of the file myfile.txt.

newform -s -i -l -a -e filename

newform -l1 -b7 filename

csplit — Split files based on a defined context.tabs — Set tab stops on a terminal.