How to Limit and Specify the Output Character Count per Line in Bash

About how to limit the number of characters per line output to the console in the Linux Bash programming language and scripting language.

awk '{ print gensub(/^(.{0,100}).*/, "\\1", "g", $0);}'

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cut -c -100

# or

awk -v len=100 '{ if (length($0) > len) print substr($0, 1, len-3) "..."; else print; }'

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