sll

Tired of grepping for files and getting really long lines and/or minified junk in the output?

sll makes it easy to strip those lines; just pipe the result of grep or ag through sll.

ag check | sll

By default, any line longer than 1024 lines is not shown. You can change this by passing an integer to sll:

ag check | sll 80

will filter any lines longer than 80 characters from the output.

Installation

Run go install github.com/kevinburke/sll and add "$GOPATH/bin" to your $PATH variable.

Other Ways to Implement this

There are many other ways to write this and some of them are listed here. Feel free to add your own with a pull request. Be sure to mention how this project is "pointless" and a "waste of time". Before merging, I will berate myself for having foisted this waste on the unsuspecting Internet population, retreat to my parents basement, and promise to never open source a thing I write ever again.

• egrep -v .{1024}
• cut -c 1-1024
• less -S
• sed -E 's/^(.{0,80}).*/\1/'

Errata

Currently ag has a --print-long-lines flag, which has not been implemented. If it does, you should probably use that instead.