[ILUG] Command-line output and screen width: ps aux | grep puzzle

Wesley Darlington wesley at blackstar.co.uk
Thu Feb 15 09:46:12 GMT 2001


Hi,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:38:44AM +0000, Cormac McClean wrote:
> However, I was puzzled when I tried this: netscape wasn't showing
> up in response to 
> 	ps aux | grep netscape
> So I just ran ps aux on its own, and I get
> 	(process details) ......./usr/local/netsca

My preferred idiom is `ps auxw' or even `ps auxww': `Wide' and
`wider', respectively. :-)

ATB,
Wesley.




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