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Terminal fullscreen dimensions (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by christos@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A simple question with an easy answer: how many characters long is your terminal in full screen? I am working on a torrent searching script, and I am interested in the statistical max dimensions of a terminal. Thanks in advance.

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[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Mine is 226... Often when writing code people will adhere to max line widths such as 80 or 100. However, if you are writing a script, why not just get the width in the script and render based on that? For example stty size, tput cols or echo "$COLUMNS".

[–] christos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thx, if many users respond with less than 140, I will need to find a solution involving truncating strings and using tput cols