how to truncate lines

[Marc Unangst]

In article <1991Feb18.205238.14418 at dartvax.dartmouth.edu> mdm at icefloe.dartmouth.edu (Michael McDaniel) writes:
>I am trying to write a simple shell script that will truncate lines fed
>from the standard input to 80 characters.  I only want the first 80

cat file.with.really.long.lines | cut -c1-80 > file.with.shorter.lines

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