bin/shorten

   1 #!/usr/bin/env bash
   2
   3 # https://brettterpstra.com/2016/04/27/shell-tricks-shorten-every-line-of-output/
   4
   5 #TODO allow different width to be set
   6 c=$(tput cols)
   7 w=$((c - 1))
   8 cat | sed -E "s/(.{$w}).*$/\1…/"