ellipse

Command that truncates and ellipses strings in a human-friendly way.

How to use

$ echo very long sentence |ellipse -n 12
very long se…

How to install

Installation instructions are provided for ArchLinux only. When using a different operation system, adoption to their package manager is left as an exercise to the reader.

Install from AUR (recommended)

This example uses yay, but you can use your favourite AUR helper instead.

yay -S ellipse

Install via cargo

First, install rust/cargo:

sudo pacman -S rust

Then, install with cargo:

cargo install ellipse-bin

This will only work if you have cargo's binary install directory added to your $PATH variable.