diff --git a/tests/fixtures/fmt/one-word-per-line.txt b/tests/fixtures/fmt/one-word-per-line.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f5f5b11e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/fmt/one-word-per-line.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+this
+is
+a
+file
+with
+one
+word
+per
+line
diff --git a/tests/test_fmt.rs b/tests/test_fmt.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bf18b4534
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_fmt.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+use common::util::*;
+
+#[test]
+fn test_fmt() {
+    let result = new_ucmd!().arg("one-word-per-line.txt").run();
+    //.stdout_is_fixture("call_graph.expected");
+    assert_eq!(
+        result.stdout.trim(),
+        "this is a file with one word per line"
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_fmt_q() {
+    let result = new_ucmd!().arg("-q").arg("one-word-per-line.txt").run();
+    //.stdout_is_fixture("call_graph.expected");
+    assert_eq!(
+        result.stdout.trim(),
+        "this is a file with one word per line"
+    );
+}
+
+/* #[test]
+ Fails for now, see https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1501
+fn test_fmt_w() {
+    let result = new_ucmd!()
+        .arg("-w")
+        .arg("10")
+        .arg("one-word-per-line.txt")
+        .run();
+        //.stdout_is_fixture("call_graph.expected");
+    assert_eq!(result.stdout.trim(), "this is a file with one word per line");
+}
+
+
+fmt is pretty broken in general, needs more works to have more tests
+ */
diff --git a/tests/tests.rs b/tests/tests.rs
index 4db11f523..ead3b68f9 100644
--- a/tests/tests.rs
+++ b/tests/tests.rs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ generic! {
     "expr", test_expr;
     "factor", test_factor;
     "false", test_false;
+    "fmt", test_fmt;
     "fold", test_fold;
     "hashsum", test_hashsum;
     "head", test_head;