From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 09:20:59 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13458 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:20:59 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13449 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:20:57 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA11439; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:18:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199503161718.JAA11439@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Paul Richards cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current mailing list) Subject: Re: ps and grep In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 1995 04:34:56 GMT." <199503160434.EAA15616@isl.cf.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:18:24 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" 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. 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 ==============================================