par is a filter which copies its input to its output, changing all white characters (except newlines) to spaces, and reformatting each paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by protected, blank, and bodiless lines (see the man page Terminology section for definitions), and optionally delimited by indentation (see the d option in the Options section). Each output paragraph is generated from the corresponding input paragraph as follows:
If there are suffixes, spaces are inserted before them so that they all end in the same column.
- An optional prefix and/or suffix is removed from each input line.
- The remainder is divided into words (separated by spaces).
- The words are joined into lines to make an eye-pleasing paragraph.
- The prefixes and suffixes are reattached.
If there are suffixes, spaces are inserted before them so that they all end in the same column.
Original maintainer | Kapil Hari Paranjape |
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Homepage | http://www.nicemice.net/par/ |
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Distribution | Version | Since | Package | Installed | Packager | |
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![]() | deb | 1.52-3+b2 | 2017-11-10 | 47 kiB | 76 kiB | Kapil Hari Paranjape |
![]() | deb | 1.52-3+b2 | 2017-11-10 | 47 kiB | 76 kiB | Kapil Hari Paranjape |
![]() | rpm | 1.52-22.fc28 | 2019-01-14 | 54.9 kiB | 105 kiB | Fedora Project |
![]() | rpm | 1.52-24.fc29 | 2019-01-14 | 52.9 kiB | 115 kiB | Fedora Project |
![]() | rpm | 1.52-24.fc29 | 2019-01-14 | 52.9 kiB | 115 kiB | Fedora Project |
![]() | rpm | 1.52-25.fc30 | 2019-06-17 | 53.3 kiB | 125 kiB | Fedora Project |
![]() | rpm | 1.52-26.fc31 | 2020-01-07 | 53.7 kiB | 114 kiB | Fedora Project |
![]() | rpm | 1.52-27.fc32 | 2020-02-08 | 53.4 kiB | 113 kiB | Fedora Project |
![]() | rpm | 0.8.0-lp150.1.1 | 2019-01-17 | 112 kiB | 260 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
![]() | rpm | 0.8.0-lp151.2.4 | 2019-03-20 | 112 kiB | 260 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
![]() | rpm | 0.8.0-lp152.3.5 | 2020-01-07 | 112 kiB | 260 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
![]() | rpm | 1.1-193.1 | 2019-01-17 | 36 kiB | 76.4 kiB | http://bugs.opensuse.org |
![]() | rpm | 1.1-190.2 | 2019-07-16 | 42.7 kiB | 80.4 kiB | https://bugs.opensuse.org |
![]() | deb | 1.52-3 | 2017-11-10 | 48 kiB | 132 kiB | Ubuntu MOTU Developers |
![]() | deb | 1.52-3build1 | 2018-06-19 | 42.8 kiB | 79 kiB | Ubuntu Developers |
![]() | deb | 1.52-3build1 | 2019-01-14 | 42.8 kiB | 79 kiB | Ubuntu Developers |
![]() | deb | 1.52-3build1 | 2019-01-14 | 42.8 kiB | 79 kiB | Ubuntu Developers |
![]() | deb | 1.52-5 | 2019-06-23 | 43.1 kiB | 83 kiB | Ubuntu Developers |
![]() | deb | 1.52-5 | 2020-01-07 | 43.1 kiB | 83 kiB | Ubuntu Developers |
![]() | deb | 1.52-3 | 2017-11-10 | 48 kiB | 132 kiB | Ubuntu MOTU Developers |
Manual pages
Latest updates

Fedora rawhide development/Everything-os: Updated from 1.52-26.fc31 to 1.52-27.fc32
2020-02-08

Fedora 31 releases/Everything-os: Version 1.52-26.fc31 introduced
2020-01-07

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 oss: Version 0.8.0-lp152.3.5 introduced
2020-01-07
- Update to version 0.8.0
- improved parallelisation on input files
- performance improvement when not using quiet mode
- fixed critical issue on windows where created parfiles were corrupt
- fixed tests on NetBSD, #102
- fixed failing tests when dir contains whitespace, #103
- added automake.sh to the files, #104
- changed some flags related to windows build, #94
- cleaned up compiler warnings for mingw build
- fixed basepath issues #93
- made distcheck behaviour consistent with different
- -srcdir #96
- properly package distribution package #98
- cross compile for windows to get redistributable exe #94
- change distribution format to tar.gz and tar.bz2 for unix and keep zip for windows #97
- Merged OpenMP version and so enabled multithreading
- added -t flag to set the number of threads (all possible
- Added -B flag to set the basepath for difficult to guess situations
- bugfixes
- fix blocksize calculation
- lintian warning spelling fix
- add manfile for par2
- README in Markdown
- add spelling fixes to cmdline output
- fixed some spelling
- simplify FindFiles
- Spec cleanup

Ubuntu 20.04 focal/universe: Version 1.52-5 introduced
2020-01-07

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-10-10

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-10-10

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-10-10

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-10-10

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-09-25

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-09-25

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-09-25

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-09-25

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 reintroduced
2019-09-06

Ubuntu 19.10 eoan/universe: Version 1.52-5 removed
2019-09-06
Related packages
par-debuginfo - Debug information for package par
par-debugsource - Debug sources for package par