Hi, It still doesn’t explain why this is happening.
If you simply do : export COLUMNS=60 ps ax | grep java The output isn’t truncated. Remember that PS’s output goes through a pipe so the terminal width shouldn’t matter. Without “-a”, we always get the full output. It is critical that application’s behaviour do not get impacted by the shell used to call them. That said, further testing shows a different behavior # bash host:/$ echo $COLUMNS 102 host:/$ export COLUMNS host:/$ ps ax | grep java | head -1 2051669 ? Sl 0:07 /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -Xms2g -Xmx2g -server -XX:+Us host:/$ export COLUMNS=40 host:/$ ps ax | grep java | head -1 No output whatsoever from the above pipe. So maybe, maybe, a combination of two bugs, 1. Bash with -a , under some conditions, exports to the environment the variable COLUMNS which it shouldn’t 2. When COLUMNS is defined, ps behaves strangely A diff before and after of the environment now gives me a difference : host[195] diff /tmp/env-before /tmp/env-after 1a2 > COLUMNS=102 36a38 > LINES=35 The strange thing is that I had tested the environment and hadn’t detected a change before. I must have made a mistake on that one. What do you think ? 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From: Oğuz <oguzismailuy...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2024 4:25 PM To: Alain BROSSARD <abross...@reyl.com> Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Re: set -a leads to truncated output from ps On Thursday, June 13, 2024, Alain BROSSARD via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell <bug-bash@ gnu. org> wrote: # however, the second one has truncated output to the terminal width Looks like `set -a' exports COLUMNS for some reason, ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an Untrusted Sender This message was sent from outside of REYL & CIE. You have not previously corresponded with this sender. Report Suspicious <https://us-phishalarm-ewt.proofpoint.com/EWT/v1/HLcdjgI!MxEYukYE4uvJJ_oEOups24xy4Eh9skMOjSvwiyO7A7rprpQCW2QbTNnlaofDI2G0-F4cQrnJGWxl3XTyGrXWUc3jOKJB1De2U8Vtimz5XYynsh8SJbJz3L-y2w$> ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd On Thursday, June 13, 2024, Alain BROSSARD via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell <bug-bash@gnu.org<mailto:bug-bash@gnu.org>> wrote: # however, the second one has truncated output to the terminal width Looks like `set -a' exports COLUMNS for some reason, this must be a bug $ set -a $ env | grep COLUMNS $ env | grep COLUMNS COLUMNS=64 You should call ps with the option -w if you want wide output though. On some implementations you can disable truncation completely by specifying it twice like `ps axww'. -- Oğuz