Stephen Shirley wrote:
>> Mornin',
> Something has been annoying me for quite some time now, and I hope
> some of ye uber linux people can suggest a solution. Basically I'm piping
> the output of 'w' into another command - but it seems to insist in only
> outputing 80 chars width. To see what I mean vi a file with a long file
> name (anything greater than 11 will do) - this is just so the output of w
> will be greater than 80 chars. Then type w in a seperate terminal - and it
> works fine. However if you do 'w | less' or 'w > bla' you'll find that
> you're missing the end of that line. Now I assume this is because w is
> trying to be smart and is using isatty() on stdout. If so, is there anyway
> I can beat it into ignoring that, or any other solution?
A number of such commands are quite tolerant of redirection with the
addition of a command line option or two; ps, for example.
You can find what your missing by adding a w (ps auxw, for example). If
the output isn't enough, you can add 'w's to taste.
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