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Description:
Paragraph reflow for email

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.53.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 24, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Productivity

Tags: text-processing email cli utility formatting

Install: brew install par

About:
Par is a text reformatting utility designed specifically for handling email and plain text documents. It intelligently reformats paragraphs to a specified width while preserving indentation and quoting conventions. This ensures that text remains readable and properly structured across different email clients and displays.

Key Features:

Preserves indentation and quoting styles (e.g., '> ')
Handles hard-wrapped text efficiently
Configurable line width and tab settings
Lightweight and fast execution

Use Cases:

Reformatting hard-wrapped emails before sending
Cleaning up text copied from terminal outputs or PDFs
Standardizing text width in documentation or config files

Alternatives:

fmt – Standard Unix tool, but lacks sophisticated handling of quoted text and indentation.
fold – Simply breaks lines at a fixed width without reflowing paragraphs or preserving structure.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 24, 2025 12:21pm	1.53.0	0	VERSION_BUMP	2128303c