Re: Piping PS truncates lines?

From: Dominic (roqetman_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:14:44 -0500

"Wally Sanford" <wsanford@wallysanford.com> wrote in message
news:bq0gse$1t5lak$5@ID-196529.news.uni-berlin.de...
> 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?
>
> Thanks for any help.

Have you tried ps -uxw ...(etc)
I'm not near my linux machine at the mo. so I can't test this.

 - Dom