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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:11:06 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current mailing list)
Subject:   Re: ps and grep 
Message-ID:  <199503161811.UAA02889@grunt.grondar.za>

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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?

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_.

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Mark Murray
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