How to truncate long matching lines returned by grep or ack

Question

I want to run ack or grep on HTML files that often have very long lines. I don\'t want to see very long lines that wrap repeatedly. But I do want to see just that portion of

Answer 1

Here's what I do:

function grep () {
  tput rmam;
  command grep "$@";
  tput smam;
}

In my .bash_profile, I override grep so that it automatically runs tput rmam before and tput smam after, which disabled wrapping and then re-enables it.