From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 10:13:01 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA17472 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 10:13:01 -0800 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17443 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 10:12:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA02889; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:11:06 +0200 Message-Id: <199503161811.UAA02889@grunt.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grunt.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Paul Richards cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current mailing list) Subject: Re: ps and grep Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:11:06 +0200 From: Mark Murray 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? You have my vote. > 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. Me too. I would also like to 'ps -gaux | less' and see _everything_. -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200