With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the
confusion.

The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the
command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output.

Neil.
On Mar 11, 2013 3:31 PM, "Tyler J. Wagner" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> > PAGER=/bin/cat man command
> >
> > Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager,
> but
> > not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps
> > command...
>
> In what situation does ps page the output? "ps -ef", for instance, doesn't.
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
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