Multiple strings, Truncate line at 80 characters

Question

I\'m new to awk and sed, and I\'m looking for a way to truncate a line at 80 characters, but I\'m printing several strings in that line using printf. The last two strings are th

Answer 1

I'm looking for a way to truncate a line at 80 characters ...

You could pipe the output to cut:

printf ... | cut -c 1-80

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If you wanted to ensure that each line isn't more than 80 characters (or wrap lines to fit in specified width), you could use fold:

printf ... | fold -w 80