Re: [patch] ps.c ps.1 Disregard terminal width when STDOUT is not a tty (take 2)

[Paul de Weerd <weerd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:58:49AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
| > No way to tell ps to create terminal width output for ps ... | grep
| > pipes any more.
| 
| Huh? How do you use that? Isn't the point that grep searches records
| of related information? Why would you ever want it to be dealing with
| results split across lines?

`ps | colorize` on your 80char wide terminal (with colorize being a
fictional tool that marks up stdin with color coding). Or how about
just simply `ps | sort` ? I can think of lots of programs I might want
to pipe ps output into that still displays on my terminal with (at
most) 80 char lines.

This entire discussion also reminds me of the article I once read (but
now can't find anymore) that explained why ls(1) doing isatty was such
a bad idea (along with cat -n and others). Anyone know what article
I'm talking about ?

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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