* Brian Somers <br...@freebsd.org> wrote: > I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the > originator) challenged my reason for closing it. > > The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can > be safely deprecated. ps goes to great lengths to implement width > limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either > been a mistake or doesn't matter. Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great > way of limiting widths if people really want that... > > I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and > '-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page > saying that it will be removed in a future release. > > Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose > merging this back into stable/8.
So ps(1) output can never be limited to the screen width? -- Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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