Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:16:28 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: Test Rat <ttsestt@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Autosizing column widths in ps(1). Message-ID: <8D7CEA8F-AF55-4509-9C90-74FC42A9A020@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110724230617.GA69612@freebsd.org> References: <0CEA161B-6767-4379-B923-585B3D4EA74E@freebsd.org> <86hb6e1bau.fsf@gmail.com> <589EB85A-1902-4643-A1FD-3C98445127DB@freebsd.org> <20110724222224.GA64487@freebsd.org> <20110724230617.GA69612@freebsd.org>
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Wiadomość napisana przez Alexander Best w dniu 25 lip 2011, o godz. 01:06: > On Sun Jul 24 11, Alexander Best wrote: >> On Sun Jul 24 11, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: >>> Wiadomo?? napisana przez Test Rat w dniu 22 lip 2011, o godz. 19:21: >>>> Edward Tomasz Napiera?a <trasz@freebsd.org> writes: >>>> >>>>> Patch below changes ps(1) to automatically size column widths according to their >>>>> contents. From the user point of view, it prevents breaking layout with too wide values >>>>> and in most cases makes output narrower. From the developer point of view, it removes >>>>> the need to specify widths. Testing is welcome - the patch shouldn't change ps(1) >>>>> behaviour except slightly changing the widths, but the code changes are pretty large >>>>> and it's quite possible I've missed something. >>>> >>>> STAT column seems to be right-aligned when it was previously left-aligned. >>>> This makes sorting it harder, e.g. >>>> >>>> $ ps ax | (IFS=; read h; echo $h; sort -k3) | less >>> >>> Good catch, thanks! Updated patch, which also fixes two issues affecting TTY column, >>> is at http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/ps-9.diff. > > any reason there are always a minimum of 2 spaces between the "TT" and the > "TIME" column and not a single space? The 'TT' column ends with either a space, or a '-'. As you've noticed, in the common case there will be no hyphens there; I'll see if I can remove the extra spacing. -- If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body?
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