import os

size = 80

file = 'budo'

folder = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/Fortunes/')

# Read and store the entire file line by line

with open(f'{folder}{file}.txt') as reader:

provers = reader.readlines()

# wrap/collate lines by separators [",", " ", "."]

def collate(text, size):

new_text = []

split_char = 1

while split_char > 0:

comma = str.find(text, ',', size)

space = str.find(text, ' ', size)

dot = str.find(text, '.', size)

split_char = min(max(comma, dot), max(comma, space), max(dot, space))

if text[:split_char]:

new_text.append(text[:split_char])

text = text[split_char+1:].replace('\n', "")

return new_text

# write collated information to new(same) file

with open(f'{folder}{file}.txt', 'w') as writer:

for wisdom in provers:

if len(wisdom) > size:

collated = collate(wisdom, size)

for short in collated:

writer.write(short)

writer.write('\n')

else:

writer.write(wisdom)

# Executing Shell Commands with Python

import os

myCmd = f'strfile -c % {folder}{file}.txt {folder}{file}.txt.dat'

os.system(myCmd)