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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch
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* Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the
> originator) challenged my reason for closing it.
>=20
> The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can
> be safely deprecated.  ps goes to great lengths to implement width
> limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either
> been a mistake or doesn't matter.  Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great
> way of limiting widths if people really want that...
>=20
> I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and
> '-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page
> saying that it will be removed in a future release.
>=20
> Does anyone have any objections to doing this?  I don't propose
> merging this back into stable/8.

So ps(1) output can never be limited to the screen width?

--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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