Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:47:40 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Vadim S. Goncharov" <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/90690: ps(1) errorneously respects terminal column settings when output is not to a terminal Message-ID: <200512201547.jBKFlelY061039@hostel.avtf.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200512201550.jBKFo3wS015617@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 90690 >Category: bin >Synopsis: ps(1) errorneously respects terminal column settings when output is not to a terminal >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 20 15:50:02 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Vadim S. Goncharov >Release: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386 >Organization: TPU AVTF Hostel >Environment: System: FreeBSD hostel.avtf.net 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Tue Nov 22 00:07:38 NOVT 2005 vadim@hostel.avtf.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOSTEL i386 >Description: Opposite to other bin utilities such as ls(1), ps(1) always respects terminal settings even if it's stdout is not a terminal (pipe, file). You should manually specify terminal settings ignorance to ps, but this behavior is counter-intuitive. >How-To-Repeat: resize xterm window to small number of columns (i.e, 10) and try to do: ps aux | grep something you'll won't get anything matched even if you'll get it matched on a wider terminal >Fix: Workaround is to add "ww" to ps cmd line args in every ps call pipelined or file redirected. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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