how to make bash not to wrap output?

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Whenever some command generates long lines as output ( for example, when a folder which contains files with long names ), the long lines are wrapped to next line, thus messing up the column structure. Is there any way of avoiding this ? Something akin to the 'nowrap' vim option ? update I noticed a…

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Note that this has nothing to do with bash (once you've launched the command, bash just waits for it to finish) and everything to do with the terminal. Most terminal emulators wrap at the right margin by default. But this can be turned off by using …

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