Re: Piping PS truncates lines?

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:42:19 GMT

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:08:41 -0800, Wally Sanford wrote:
> I noticed that if I try something like:
>
> ps -ux | sort -rk 3 | head -n 25
>
> or
>
> ps f -e | grep perl
>
> I get back the correct lines, but they are always truncated to 80 lines?
>
> It seems to me that this is the doing of the ps command (if it thinks
> it's being piped?)
>
> Is there any way to force it to give full lines?

I wonder if your ps man page might have something about wide output
try man ps