[ILUG] A little grep mystery

[Barry O'Donovan]

With bash, add following to your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

alias ps='ps -w'

Barry

Ar an Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:05, scriobh Niall O Broin:
> I have a box running the Communigate mail server and an extract
> from ps -ef on that box looks like
>
> root       727   584  0 Apr11 ?        00:00:19
> /usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGServer root       728   584  0 Apr11
> ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGServer
>
> yet when I do   ps -ef|grep CGServer  I get just this
>
>
> root      7429  7377  0 09:38 pts/7    00:00:00 grep CGServer
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> but in the interim (i.e. while writing this) I piped the output
> through cat and got
>
> root       727   584  0 Apr11 ?        00:00:19
> /usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGSe root       728   584  0 Apr11 ?   
>     00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGSe
>
> and then I remembered this being discussed here recently - ps
> 'intelligently' cutting its output at column 80 if STDOUT is not a
> tty. ps -efw saves the day but is there any way of stopping ps from
> doing this permanent basis via an environment variable or a
> configuration option. As sure as eggs is eggs, this will catch me
> again in 6 months time.
>
>
>
> Niall

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