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Subject: Re: bin/137647: ps(1) output depends on terminals column width when
	piping or redirecting
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Synopsis: ps(1) output depends on terminals column width when piping or redirecting

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: brian
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 25 07:56:45 UTC 2009
State-Changed-Why: 
I agree with Michael.  ps(1) checks stdout, stderr then stdin to see if
it's a tty, and if none are will set the width to 79.

Scripts should either use pgrep or pkill, or else use ps -ww and also
possibly -o comm or -o command.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137647