#!/usr/bin/env sh # compat: +ash +bash +dash +zsh YES_BB_AWK trunc() { ### @- ### truncate text to fit within your terminal using the unicode character `…`. ### ### ``` ### $ echo $COLUMNS ### 84 ### $ seq 1 100 | tr '\n' ' ' | trunc ### 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31… ### ``` [ $# -le 1 ] || { printf "%s\n" "$0: too many arguments" >&2; return 1; } COLUMNS=${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)} awk -vL=${1:-$COLUMNS} '{e=length()>L?"…":"";print substr($0,0,L-(e?1:0)) e}' } [ -n "${preload+-}" ] || trunc "$@"