Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 14:38:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> To: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <199503161438.OAA08014@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503160436.EAA15827@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 04:36:52 am
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> In reply to Paul Richards who said
> >
> > 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.
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> And before everyone sends me solutions, I know about the w option to ps,
> I just always forget to use it which is why I get pissed :-)
If the -ww option already does it, why make an change that leaves us
incompatible with other BSD's; if you would prefer the option to be a
default, make an alias instead?
Cheers
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