tput rmam
will disable line wrapping so that long lines are truncated to width of the terminal ($COLUMNS).
tput smam
will re-enable wrapping.
I've always used tput in bash scripts but I guess it works on the command line too.
Doesn't work in all terminals.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/termutils/manual/termutils-2.0/html_chapter/tput_1.html
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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nowrap() { cut -c-$(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?function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$COLS ; unset COLS ; echo -ne "\e[0m" ; }
#!/bin/bash
function nowrap { export COLS=`tput cols` ; cut -c-$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
#!/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