Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:32:21 +1000 From: Greg Watson <G.Watson@gu.edu.au> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <199503160532.PAA14881@pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au>
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> What do people think of the idea of making ps treat the textwidth as infinite
> if it's output is redirected?
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> 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.
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I thought this is what the "ww" option was for...
As in "ps wwax | grep foo". Is this not available in FreeBSD (my laptop
is currently at the doctor, so I can't try it out...:-()?
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