[ale] more/grep truncates piped results

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:16, Fletch wrote:
> It's not more and grep, it's ps itself truncating the output (probably
> assuming a width of 80 columns if its output is a pipe).  Try
> something along the lines of this (presuming a Bourney shell of some
> description, of course):
> 
> 
> COLUMNS=120 ps -ef | grep foooble

	You might also note 'ps -efww | gre[ foooble' will also do the trick.

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Danny

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