Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 04:36:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <199503160436.EAA15827@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503160434.EAA15616@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 04:34:56 am
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In reply to Paul Richards who said > > What do people think of the idea of making ps treat the textwidth as infinite > if it's output is redirected? > > It really pisses me off when you do ps | grep foo and foo isn't > found because it's really long and ps truncates its output to fit > the screen width so grep never sees it. And before everyone sends me solutions, I know about the w option to ps, I just always forget to use it which is why I get pissed :-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK
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