Limit output of all Linux commands
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I'm looking for a way to limit the amount of output produced by all command line programs in Linux, and preferably tell me when it is limited.
I'm working over a server which has a lag on the display. Occasionally I will accidentally run a command which outputs a large amount of text to the terminal, such as cat
on a large file or ls
on a directory with many files. I then have to wait a while for all the output to be printed to the terminal.
So is there a way to automatically pipe all output into a command like head
or wc
to prevent too much output having to be printed to terminal?
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