> == Niall O Broin
>> == kevin lyda
>> what??? that's more the 80 chars. ps should chop at 80 chars -
> Well obviously it doesn't always - I've had a few discussions about
> the value of "should" today :-)
ps without "w" options chops at 80 characters *only* if the output is
a tty; if it's a pipe, it assumes infinite width. Lots of
applications do things like this - ls is the most obvious example (ls
writes one-file-per-line if the output isn't a tty; if it's a tty, it
formats into columns). The behaviour makes sense if you think about
it.
Colm
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