From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 16:13:45 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA04607 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:13:45 -0800 Received: from post.demon.co.uk (post.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.72]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA04598 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:13:41 -0800 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa03225; 17 Mar 95 0:06 GMT Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (99.9/99.9) id OAA08014; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 14:38:05 GMT From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199503161438.OAA08014@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: ps and grep To: Paul Richards Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 14:38:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503160436.EAA15827@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 04:36:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 955 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > > 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 -- ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |