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In Bash, you could use the $COLUMNS environment variable to detect the width of your terminal and truncate each line to that length in your sed script. Something like this should work: sed "s/^\(....
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r~~
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2023-10-03T21:06:08Z (about 1 year ago)
You could use the `$COLUMNS` environment variable to detect the width of your terminal and truncate each line to that length in your sed script. Something like this should work:- ```
- sed "s/^\(.\{,$COLUMNS\}\).*$/\1/;2,\$s/^/\x1B[1A\x1B[K/"
```
- In Bash, you could use the `$COLUMNS` environment variable to detect the width of your terminal and truncate each line to that length in your sed script. Something like this should work:
- ```
- sed "s/^\(.\{,$COLUMNS\}\).*$/\1/;2,\$s/^/\x1B[1A\x1B[K/"
- ```
- For a sh-compatible alternative, replace `$COLUMNS` with `$(tput cols)`.
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r~~
·
2023-10-02T18:52:27Z (about 1 year ago)
You could use the `$COLUMNS` environment variable to detect the width of your terminal and truncate each line to that length in your sed script. Something like this should work:
```
sed "s/^\(.\{,$COLUMNS\}\).*$/\1/;2,\$s/^/\x1B[1A\x1B[K/"
```