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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 1995 04:36:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ps and grep
Message-ID:  <199503160436.EAA15827@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199503160434.EAA15616@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 04:34:56 am

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In reply to Paul Richards who said
> 
> What do people think of the idea of making ps treat the textwidth as infinite
> if it's output is redirected?
> 
> It really pisses me off when you do ps | grep foo and foo isn't
> found because it's really long and ps truncates its output to fit
> the screen width so grep never sees it.

And before everyone sends me solutions, I know about the w option to ps,
I just always forget to use it which is why I get pissed :-)

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK



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