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fold (hard wrap) in pure bash
fold() {
data="$1"
width="$2"
length=$(echo -n "$data" | wc -c)
while [ $length -gt $width ]
do
echo ${data:0:$width}
data=${data:$width}
length=$(echo -n "$data" | wc -c)
done
echo $data
}
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