Problem with “terminal too wide” been plaguing you on those farty old Solaris boxes for the last 6.5 years but you were usually too busy doing something else to stop it from ever happening again?

Well you can install VIM, or if that’s not practical (or if you’re not in the mood to install VIM and its required dependencies on the hundred or so boxes you log into), then the command “stty columns 120” will do ya.

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Problem with “terminal too wide” been plaguing you on those farty old Solaris boxes for the last 6.5 years but you were usually too busy doing something else to stop it from ever happening again?

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