Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:18:24 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current mailing list) Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <199503161718.JAA11439@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 1995 04:34:56 GMT." <199503160434.EAA15616@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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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? > >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. Don't you want "ps -www | grep foo"? I don't think that you need all three 'w's, but it seems the feature is already there, just not automatic for pipes. > >-- > 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 -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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