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eruina
eruina

Reputation: 873

Horizontal scroll in a bash window

I used printf to output a columnar display of a text file.

However the length I wanted will cause the columns to flow into the next line.

I've been searching for a flag or workaround that will make the console window scroll and could only come across the following:

set horizontal-scroll-mode On

It's right under the #! /bin/bash line, but couldn't work

Is there another way?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 10753

Answers (3)

clonea
clonea

Reputation: 39

My answer to you is not that good. But it worked for me. Use python/tk or perl/tk or whatever/tk. output the text to a text box with horizontal and vertical bars.
I have this 3 text boxes.

  1. the commands I run.
  2. the output of the commands
  3. oh... the commands to make the commands I run.
    But this is a utility only for me.

Upvotes: 0

t0mm13b
t0mm13b

Reputation: 34592

Maybe you should look into using dialog, here's the man page for dialog, or ncurses to do this for you instead of wrestling with the means of outputting text and scrolling. Let those libraries take care of that for you.

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.

Upvotes: 1

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 798666

No. Terminals are not designed to scroll horizontally. Use less -S to allow scrolling left and right as well as up and down.

Upvotes: 22

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