less -S:
-S or --chop-long-lines
Causes lines longer than the screen width to be chopped rather
than folded. That is, the remainder of a long line is simply
discarded. The default is to fold long lines; that is, display
the remainder on the next line.
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, m ike wrote:
> Instead of line wrapping, is there a way to get a command such as
> 'less' to truncate? My fix at the moment is:
>
> function lesstruncated { cat $2 | sed -e "s/\(^.\{1,$1\}\).*/\1/" | less
> ;}
>
> for example:
>
> lesstruncated 40 filename
>
>
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