How to truncate STDIN line length?

Question

I\'ve been parsing through some log files and I\'ve found that some of the lines are too long to display on one line so Terminal.app kindly wraps them onto the next line. Ho

Answer 1

A Korn shell solution (truncating to 70 chars - easy to parameterize though):

typeset -L70 line
while read line
do
  print $line
done