[Gllug] Pipes truncating STDOUT to 80 chars

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sun Nov 17 11:29:58 UTC 2002


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Rhys Hopkins moaned:
>> You need to include the -w "wide" option:
>> 	ps -efw | grep httpd
>> for an 132 characters wide, or:
>> 	ps -efww | grep httpd
>> for all the output, which will line wrap on good terminals.

Why not `ps -fwwwC httpd'?

That grep is a waste of a process. :)

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