Command Line width parameter

Scoogie · #1 (**permalink**) 02-06-2002

can someone please tell me how i can increase the number of characters that can be input on the command line?

LivinFree · #2 (**permalink**) 02-07-2002

What Unix? What kind of terminal?
(Try something like this:
uname -a
echo $TERM
)

And what is the problem you're having now that you want to fix?

queueball · #3 (**permalink**) 02-08-2002

I'm guessing you want to change the width of the whole display, not just the command line. Try stty columns ##

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