Horizontal scroll in a bash window

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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?

Accepted Answer

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.

Horizontal scroll in a bash window

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