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Hi!
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:18:04PM +1000, Evan Clarke wrote:
>On 21/07/2008, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I don't particularily like this. I think you should use the option "ww".
>> -w Use 132 columns to display information, instead of the default,
>> which is the window size. If the -w option is specified more
>> than once, ps will use as many columns as necessary without re-
>> gard for window size.
>> As in, this is already a solved problem.
>You do raise a valid point. My main reason for the patch is that I
>have a couple of scripts that I don't control, that assume the ww on
>STDOUT!=tty, and break if it isn't present - I am assuming because the
>GNU tools (and maybe others) do this.
>This patch stops scripts behaviour from being dependant on the
>terminal size - it adds a certain level of certainty on the output, in
>a similar way to how ls changes behaviour of its output if it is
>piping.
I wouldn't like your patch.
No way to tell ps to create terminal width output for ps ... | grep
pipes any more.
Kind regards,
Hannah.
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