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Util for trimming output to terminal width?

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Mar 15, 20267194 views
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Problem

When I do The output gets nicely trimmed to the width of my terminal, so that long process descriptions don't take more than one line. However, if I pipe it into anything else, the long lines return. I realize this is a proper behavior, since ps is no longer outputting to a tty and the entire outpu…

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Fix for: Util for trimming output to terminal width?

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You can use the command to slice the output. For example: This will keep only the first 80 characters of each line. You can of course set that to any width you want. If using the bash commandline, you could do this: If the output has tabs, then the …

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