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by mockery 2082 days ago
I've always seen it called "justified" alignment, which appears to be the common term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justifie...
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Thanks!
fmt, par, and nroff are common unix utilities that can justify text (in order of complexity). I've been told that fmt was the disk formatter on at least one oddball unix. Or maybe it's just an urban legend to keep people from running unknown commands as root.