Thanks for all the quick replies. The answer from everyone was to use the 'w'
and 'ww' options on ps to allow for >80 column output. My apologies for not
digging in to the man page deeper, it didn't occur to me that this was a
"feature."
dan
original:
> I've got some system magic happening here I can't figure out. I have a very
> simple one line sh script on an HP/UX box that simply does a ps, then greps
> through the command information to determine process id's.
>
> I moved the same script to OSFV3.2a and it doesn't work. One thing I did
find
> is that if I run the 'ps' one-liner from the command line in an xterm window
> where part of the command column runs off the right of the window, it doesn't
> work. BUT, if I widen the size of the xterm so that the whole command is in
> view (the parts I'm grep'ing for), the script works.
>
> I've used my own script, and a modified version of the 'ps' one-liners found
in
> most of the /sbin/init.d scripts, but neither work. My xterms don't word
wrap
> and the HP xterm does. But it seems to me that xterm (or ttys settings?)
> shouldn't have anything to do with it. What am I missing?
Received on Wed Sep 06 1995 - 18:49:20 NZST