Discovered `less -S` today which really saved me with a log file that had a bad error message that was so long even `less` started chugging.

"-S or --chop-long-lines"

"Causes lines longer than the screen width to be chopped (truncated) rather than wrapped. That is, the portion of a long line that does not fit in the screen width is not shown. The default is to wrap long lines; that is, display the remainder on the next line."

Immediately fixed the problem, got the info I needed from the file in 2 seconds.

#bash #term #SoftwareDeveloment