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

Unless I'm missing the point, the UNIX "fold" command was designed to do exactly that:

$ cat file
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back

$ fold -w20 file
the quick brown fox
jumped over the lazy
 dog's back

$ fold -w10 file
the quick
brown fox
jumped ove
r the lazy
 dog's bac
k

$ fold -s -w10 file
the quick
brown fox
jumped
over the
lazy
dog's back