[Gllug] Pipes truncating STDOUT to 80 chars
Tethys
tet at accucard.com
Mon Nov 11 09:31:37 UTC 2002
Rhys Hopkins writes:
>> COLUMNS=1000 ps -ef | grep httpd
>
>I have tried this previously, to no effect.
Strange. Works fine for me on RH7.3.
>> Grepping the process table is an unreliable method for
>> finding out pretty much anything,
>
>EEEEK! why didn't someone tell me this earlier! I have based my entire
>career on this very technique.
:-)
Yes, most of the time you'll get away with it, but that doesn't mean it's
the right way to go about things...
Tet
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