linechop

#!/bin/bash

help() {
   echo 'usage: linechop'
   echo '       linechop --help'
   echo
   echo '    chop lines of at right margin of the screen'
   exit 1
}

[ "$1" == "--help" ] && help

# The below is ugly. It'd be better to query the current
# "automatic margin" mode (aka am_mode aka "am"
# -> man terminfo)) and to reset it to what it was
# before. But I have yet to find out how to do that.
# Help welcome.
#
# we could use 'cut' but it doesn't know about utf-8

tput rmam
cat -
tput smam