On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Doug Barton<dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Ivan Radovanovic wrote: >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> In message <4A80778B.8090708_at_gmail.com>, Ivan Radovanovic writes: >>> >>> >>>> ps -axj | grep opera >>>> You will receive different results depending on width on console >>>> window (for example, for me no results on normal text mode console, >>>> in X it depends on width of console you are executing above command in). >>>> >>> >>> See the -w option to ps >>> >>> >> >> Thanks, anyway I find this behavior weird when redirecting or piping... > > And how does ps know when it's being redirected or piped? > > > Doug > > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > ps could be modified to use isatty(3) to determine if stdout is a tty. Currently if any of the tty ioctls return -1 it assumes a failsafe of 79 column width. This may not be necessary, though, since from the man page, specifying '-w' multiple times will make it use as many columns as necessary. Perhaps this could be the default if not a tty. - JustinReceived on Mon Aug 10 2009 - 18:15:24 UTC
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