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Ron Piggott
Asked: 2019-05-04 04:23:28 +0800 CST

Prevent Figlet From Word Wrapping?

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I am wondering if it is possible to prevent a word wrap in figlet.

I am using it to display the date - time:

watch -t -n1 "date +%Y-%m-%d.%H-%M-%S|figlet -p"

In my terminal the output is

|___ \ / _ \/ |/ _ \       / _ \| ___|       / _ \___ / / _ \ ( _ )     |___ \ 
  __) | | | | | (_) |_____| | | |___ \ _____| | | ||_ \| | | |/ _ \ _____ __) |
 / __/| |_| | |\__, |_____| |_| |___) |_____| |_| |__) | |_| | (_) |_____/ __/ 
|_____|\___/|_|  /_/       \___/|____/       \___/____(_)___/ \___/     |_____|

  ___       ____   ___  
 / _ \     | ___| / _ \ 
| | | |____|___ \| | | |
| |_| |_____|__) | |_| |
 \___/     |____/ \___/

I am use to terminal word wrapping text based on the width of terminal. Some how the word wrap happens between the 2 minute digits.

I know the only thing I know how --- Adding "-p" to figlet. This had no effect.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    watch -t -n1 'figlet $(date +%Y/%-m/%-d) $(date +%-H:%M:%S)'

or

watch -t -n1 'figlet $(date +%Y/%-m/%-d" "%-H:%M:%S)'
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  2. I can see a -w option in figlet's manual to specify the width. So something like figlet -w 999 should do the trick.

    -p seems to influence how figlet handles newlines on its input, thus is irrelevant here.

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