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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-11
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/w.procps
In adition to all ther other /usr/bin/w output formatting bugs,
here's another.
If w's output is not a tty
eg: w | cat
The output is now truncated at 80 characters.
The old behavior was to not truncate.
There seems to be no way to turn this off or force
the width to some other size.
now I can't use w in my script anymore.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
procps suggests no packages.
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.8-2
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:53:35PM +1200, Jasen Betts wrote:
> If w's output is not a tty
> The output is now truncated at 80 characters.
This is probably how it should work, it doesn't do this in procps 3.2.8
in any case.
It's been about a year since I've looked at the 3.2.7
code, but have you tried setting the COLUMNS environment variable?
- Craig
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