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Mine is 226... Often when writing code people will adhere to max line widths such as 80 or 100. However, if you are writing a script, why not just get the width in the script and render based on that? For example
stty size,tput colsorecho "$COLUMNS".Thx, if many users respond with less than 140, I will need to find a solution involving truncating strings and using
tput cols