Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:37:32 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Cc: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep and console width Message-ID: <20020529123732.GE18367@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020529121120.GA68681@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> References: <20020529121120.GA68681@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg>
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> 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
>
> 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.
well, grep does *not* make any assumptions. it's really a strange
behavior of ps(1), IOW, I agree with you.
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