Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:45:44 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Mike Pritchard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps again Message-ID: <199503291045.LAA19887@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503290759.BAA00808@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Mar 29, 95 01:59:10 am
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In reply to Mike Pritchard who said
>
> 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: <paul>
> > CATS: user
> > GRADE: INTERMEDIATE
> > STATUS: OPEN
Yeah we did, it needs to be taken out.
--
Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member.
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Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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