[Gllug] Pipes truncating STDOUT to 80 chars

[Rhys Hopkins]

> It's not the pipe that's truncating the output, it's ps. Sounds like
> it's a bug, because it should check if the output is to a terminal
> and use that to decide the format of the output (c.f. ls). 
> Try reporting
> it at http://bugzilla.redhat.com

So if I copy ps from my SuSE box to my Red Hat box.... ?
[furtive copying of binaries...]

> 
> >This is particularly annoying when doing e.g. 
> >
> >What can I change in the RedHat system to make it act like SuSE ?
> 
> You can either force a wide column width:
> 
> 	COLUMNS=1000 ps -ef | grep httpd
> 

I have tried this previously, to no effect.


> or you can just use sane BSD ps syntax:
> 
> 	ps auxww | grep httpd
> 

Sorry - I am from an AIX / HPUX background where such bizarre syntaxes
are unheard of, these things never occur to me.

> Just as an aside... if you're thinking of doing this from 
> within a script,
> don't! 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.

> and there are better alternatives available.


> 
> Tet
> 
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