fmt: How to skip some text?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg:
>          :1,$ ! fmt -w 130
>
>Without vi, this command would look like:
>          cat file ! fmt -w 130
>
>I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least
>two blanks, like this:

Extend your command to pipe it through sed first:

This will format the entire document
Go to the top of the document (1G);
!Gsed '/^  /d' | fmt -w 130<ENTER>

Bill
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