"Bob Stockler" <bob@trebor.iglou.com> wrote in message
news:20050404151525.GD6745@trebor.iglou.com...
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:20:46AM -0700, pablo hernandez wrote:
> |
> | I want to "cat" one file , but shortening each line to maximum 70
characters .
> |
> | I think this can be done with awk , but probably there is a easy way :
>
> awk '{print substr($0,1,70)}' infile >outfile
>
> Bob
When logged in I see an environment variable COLUMNS set to 80. What is
this used for?

Ron