From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 21:32:34 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA00789 for current-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 21:32:34 -0800 Received: from griffin.itc.gu.edu.au (griffin.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA00783 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 21:32:28 -0800 Received: from pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au by griffin.itc.gu.edu.au with SMTP id AA06024 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org); Thu, 16 Mar 95 15:32:21 +1000 Received: (from greg@localhost) by pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au (8.6.10/8.6.10) id PAA14881 for FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:32:21 +1000 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:32:21 +1000 From: Greg Watson Message-Id: <199503160532.PAA14881@pegasus.itc.gu.edu.au> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps and grep X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > 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...:-()? _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Greg Watson, Manager _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Facility _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ Griffith University, Nathan, Qld 4111, Aus. _/_/_/ _/ / _/ Phone: +61-7-875-5543 Fax: +61-7-875-6650 _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ EMail: G.Watson@gu.edu.au