[Gllug] Pipes truncating STDOUT to 80 chars

[Rhys Hopkins]

Does anyone know why RedHat ( in this case specifically Red Hat 7.2 )
truncates standard output at 80 characters when it is put through a pipe,
but SuSE ( in this case specifically SuSE 7.0 ) gives you output for the
full width of your terminal window ?

This is particularly annoying when doing e.g. 

# ps -ef | grep httpd

which works every time in SuSE, but fails every time in RedHat, because the
standard output from ps -ef is wider than 80 chars, so when piped, the
command line is truncated, and consequently grep never finds what it is
looking for.

What can I change in the RedHat system to make it act like SuSE ?

TIA,

Rhys.


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