awk - How to limit the number of characters returned by each match in grep

Question

How can I limit the results shown by grep -rn "sqs" * to exclude long results (more than say a line or two long)?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65848340/how-to-limit-the-number-of-characters-returned-by-each-match-in-grep

Answer 1

You may try this find + awk:

find . -type f -exec awk 'length() <= 80 && /sqs/ {
print FILENAME ":" FNR ":33[1;31m" $0 "33[0m "}' {} +

• length() <= 80 will search sqs string in lines that have 80 or less characters in them.
• "33[1;31m" $0 "33[0m " is used to color the line red.