[ale] more/grep truncates piped results

[nojunkmail at cehuber.org (Chuck Huber)]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:43:21PM -0500, John Wells wrote:
> If I run ps -ef by itself, I get full command line returned.  However, if
> I pipe it through more or grep, the output is truncated and only shows
> approx. 32 characters of the command.
> 
> Is there a way to set more and grep's output width so I can modify this
> behavior?

John,

Yes.  ps truncates its display to 80 characters when writing to a non-tty.
This limitation can be overridden with the -w (wide) option to ps:

    ps -efw | more

Enjoy,
    - chuck

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