How to truncate STDIN line length?

Question

I\'ve been parsing through some log files and I\'ve found that some of the lines are too long to display on one line so Terminal.app kindly wraps them onto the next line. Ho

Answer 1

The usual way to do this would be

perl -wlne'print substr($_,0,80)'

Golfed (for 5.10):

perl -nE'say/(.{0,80})/'

(Don't think of it as programming, think of it as using a command line tool with a huge number of options.) (Yes, the python reference is intentional.)