I have a perl script. To make sure it is running, I do a 'ps aux' and see
something like on my screen:
[amead@hera amead]$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1104 72 ? S Jul05 5:50 init [3]
...
root 22461 0.1 3.0 2840 1904 pts/1 S 13:07 0:01 perl -w
/usr/sbin/sendreports
...
But if I try to pipe the output into grep looking for 'sendreports' I get
nothing. If I grep for perl, I get part of the command line:
[amead@hera amead]$ ps aux | grep -i sendreport
[amead@hera amead]$ ps aux | grep -i perl
root 22461 0.1 3.0 2840 1904 pts/1 S 13:07 0:01 perl -w
/usr/sbin
amead 22570 0.0 0.6 1164 428 pts/2 S 13:28 0:00 grep -i perl
Why does ps truncate it's output?
The -w option does give the complete width but I'm curious why the output
varies between depending on whether it's going to the screen to a pipe. I
sense the possibility that I could learn something here...
-Alan
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