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February 15, 2023 14:52
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Quick script to convert stdin to a line size that fits the screen. For example, `ps -e` will return only lines that fit on the current screen. If you want to grep that output, you get all of the data and it wraps the screen. If you pipe `ps -e | grep foo | fit`, then you get the trimmed output again.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| COLS="$(tput cols)" | |
| while read LINE; do | |
| echo $LINE | head -c $COLS | |
| done |
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