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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

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Justin T. Gibbs
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