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no more line wrapping in your terminal

Terminal - no more line wrapping in your terminal
function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; }
2009-09-11 15:07:00
User: mobidyc
Functions: cut export unset
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no more line wrapping in your terminal

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function is bash specific. Also you don't need to set COLS, just:

nowrap() { cut -c-$(tput cols); }

Note however that will mess up if terminal escape codes are in your data. It may also mess up with non displaying multibyte characters like combining chars for example.

Hmm are there any terminals that support a nowrap setting?

Comment by pixelbeat 196 weeks and 5 days ago

function works in ksh, it's not bash specific.

thanks to have reduced this function, don't know why i did it like this ^_^

this function is for a quickview, no matters multibyte characters i think.

thanks for your comments.

Mobidyc

Comment by mobidyc 196 weeks and 4 days ago

Try this

function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; echo -ne "\e[0m" ; }
Comment by drigohighlander 22 weeks and 6 days ago

Here a example

#!/bin/bash function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; echo -ne "\e[0m" ; } echo -ne "\e[1;31mNote however that will mess up if terminal escape codes are in your data. It may also mess up with non displaying multibyte characters like combining chars for example.\nHmm are there any terminals that support a nowrap setting?\e[0m" | nowrap
Comment by drigohighlander 22 weeks and 6 days ago

Here a example

#!/bin/bash function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; echo -ne "\e[0m" ; } echo -ne "\e[1;31mNote however that will mess up if terminal escape codes are in your data. It may also mess up with non displaying multibyte characters like combining chars for example.\nHmm are there any terminals that support a nowrap setting?\e[0m" | nowrap
Comment by drigohighlander 22 weeks and 6 days ago

sorry for the gold shovel

Comment by drigohighlander 22 weeks and 6 days ago

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