Re: terminal width

[Alexis <flexibeast@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If I have a ragged array that I want to cut down to terminal 
> width
> this is fine for each line:
>
> output[line_number]=$input[1, $COLUMNS]
>
> ... if there are no color codes or tabs.  If there are, the
> predictable thing happens.  Using 'cut' has exactly the same
> problem. 
> I doubt the shell can be asked to deal with that, but I'll ask
> anyway.  Could be that ncurses, or something, will handle it.  
> Or
> maybe somebody knows of a utility that can.  I understand that 
> it's
> a
> can of worms tho.

My apologies if i'm not correctly understanding what you're after, 
but
ansifilter(1):

https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/ansifilter/ansifilter.1.en.html

can strip ANSI escape sequences, and sed(1) could e.g. convert 
each
tab to a single space.


Alexis.