From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 20:36:37 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA07311 for current-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 20:36:37 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA07305 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 20:36:35 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id EAA15827; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 04:36:53 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503160436.EAA15827@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: ps and grep To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 04:36:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503160434.EAA15616@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 04:34:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 712 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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