From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 01:04:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA12196 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 01:04:25 -0800 Received: from mpp.com (dialup-4-66.gw.umn.edu [128.101.96.66]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA12189 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 01:04:04 -0800 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA00808 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 01:59:11 -0600 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199503290759.BAA00808@mpp.com> Subject: ps again To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 01:59:10 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 855 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was just looking through the file /usr/src/TODO, and ran across this item. I thought that the general agreement was that ps should not be changed, and that anyone wanting this should just run ps -ww | grep foo (or alias ps to do that or whatever). (sorry if this is not the case, since I lost about a days worth of mail when this discussion was going on) > TASKID: 950316001 > TASK: Make ps use infinite texwidth for redirected output > DETAIL: { When you do a ps | grep foo, if foo is long and the screen width is > shorter then grep never sees foo because ps truncates its output. It makes > more sense for ps to do no truncation at all if its output is redirected. } > EMAIL: > CATS: user > GRADE: INTERMEDIATE > STATUS: OPEN -- Mike Pritchard pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"