Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 10:06:48 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: swallace@ece.uci.edu (Steven Wallace) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <9503171706.AA28911@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503170809.AA21044@balboa.eng.uci.edu> from "Steven Wallace" at Mar 17, 95 00:09:38 am
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> I agree with Rod, changing the functionality based on output is a BAD > idea. There is no need to do this in ps. Just use ps gaxww > to get > 80 col output. I agree! Where would we be if "ls | cat" didn't produce columnar output just like plain old "ls" because it knew it was going to a pipe. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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