Re: Piping PS truncates lines?

From: Robert M. Riches Jr (spamtrap42_at_verizon.net)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:42:17 GMT

In article <bq0gse$1t5lak$5@ID-196529.news.uni-berlin.de>, 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 usually use 'ps augx', and with those options it always
truncates lines at 80 chars. Try adding the 'w' option (for
wide output).

Good luck.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)