How to turn off word wrap in iTerm2?

Question

How to turn off word wrap in iTerm2? Is there a specific command to do so or in the preferences? I am trying to avoid having the text run down to the next line. I would rather scroll side to side.

Answer 1

lifted directly from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/210666/115119

Props to @michid

Disable line wrapping:

tput rmam 

Enable line wrapping:

tput smam