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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 07:15:38 -0700
From:      Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Columns in Script Outpur
Message-ID:  <37456A8A.484@echidna.com>
References:  <199905210427.AAA20685@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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Crist J. Clark wrote:
> 
> I have just noticed some undesirable behavior from a shell script
> running in a cron job. The shell script writes ps output to a file. The
> output in this file is being truncated to 80 columns.

> I assume this is some special bahvior from ps causing this. How do I
> work around it and have ps not truncate lines? Note that it is
> something that should work from a crontab.


Have you tried the 'w' switch with ps? 


-- 
Graeme Tait - Echidna



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