Re: Piping PS truncates lines?

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.fa.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: 25 Nov 2003 22:53:27 GMT

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 21:08 GMT, 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?
 
     I think you mean "80 columns".

> It seems to me that this is the doing of the ps command (if it thinks
> it's being piped?)

     Do you get long lines when using ps by itself? I doubt it.

> Is there any way to force it to give full lines?

man ps

     Look for -w. 

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