Hi Julian, jhx <jhx0...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello everyone, > > I personally often use 'fold' to break up some long lines, which works > well. Lately I have been in the need to cut of a line at a specific length - > removing the rest of the line. I made a small patch for 'fold' to do just > that. The line gets cut off at WIDTH (specified via -w WIDTH) and three dots > will be printed for a more appealing output. The new option added is '-c' for > 'cut'. > I checked out the newest code via Git and compiled 'fold' with the patch > attached to this mail. (No errors/warnings were output). If I understood your intention and patch correctly, cut should already do what you need: ~$ perl -e 'print "A" x 800, "\n";' | cut -c -50 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ~$ perl -e 'print "A" x 8, "\n";' | cut -c -50 | cat --show-ends AAAAAAAA$ Check out ``(coreutils)cut invocation''. > Attached you will find the patch for 'fold'. > > Apologies if there is something missing/wrong - Never contributed to any GNU > software before. :) Welcome! Great having you. :-D > Greetings > > Julian "jhx" > > [2. text/x-patch; fold-cut-line.patch]... Hope that helps! Have a most wonderful day. -- Arsen Arsenović
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