From f4f9d3d1adb424bbc31d2ae11b9cac4105d234ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samir Benmendil <me@rmz.io>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:01:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bin: add script to shorten text to N chars or Term width

---
 bin/shorten | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 bin/shorten

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…/"
-- 
2.48.1