thanks! I had searched the man page or truncate and wrap. LOL
On 10/18/05, Deke Clinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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