From: Samir Benmendil <me@rmz.io>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 01:01:34 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bin: add script to shorten text to N chars or Term width
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bin: add script to shorten text to N chars or Term width
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diff --git a/bin/shorten b/bin/shorten
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..33f41f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/shorten
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# https://brettterpstra.com/2016/04/27/shell-tricks-shorten-every-line-of-output/
+
+#TODO allow different width to be set
+c=$(tput cols)
+w=$((c - 1))
+cat | sed -E "s/(.{$w}).*$/\1…/"