Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:01:05 +0000 () From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950317195516.4494C-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <199503170809.AA21044@balboa.eng.uci.edu>
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Although I don't have strong feelings either way, I would vote
with leaving 'ps' the way it is now. If it starts assuming -ww when
stdout is a pipe, then it will need a complementary switch to force
short and really-short output. Seems like a lot of work for a net
gain of zero. I don't see any real reason why 'ps' should default to
extra-wide for a pipe. Same goes for 'ls', actually, with the -1 and
-C switches, but changing that now would break a whole lot of scripts.
If someone is really itching to add stuff to 'ps', how about a
switch that produced tab-delimited rather than space-delimited output?
That would make processing with cut/awk *much* simpler.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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