Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:11:20 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Subject: Re: grep and console width Message-ID: <20020529121120.GA68681@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg>
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Philip J. Koenig writes: >> No. It's not grep, it's ps(1). see the w option. > >Wow, so it is. So even if you redirect the output of that command, >and it never even touches a console window, it formats the output to >fit the current console window? (or defaults to 80 chars) Hmm, IMHO ps should only truncate if stdout is a terminal (that's the only case where it really makes sense.) The proper Unix way, of course, would be to not make grep do any assumptions at all, and have a filter command that truncates to screenwidth, although that would probably be a bit more effort to use, unless you use aliases. We're probably seeing some rather old misdesign here. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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