unix ps command question

[rhymejerky]

Hi,

The ps command has a fixed output size for each line. Is that size changable? Is it compiled into the kernel? Also, is this size OS dependent? Thanks,

Rhyme

 

[bfitzmai]

Not sure what controls the ps command character limit. But, the old ps command in /usr/ucb/ps does not have this limit.

example: /usr/ucb/ps -aux

 

[grindel]

I have the same problem - some of my commands are more than 80 chars in length, so the display gets truncated. I'm looking into the /usr/ucb/ps thing, but I'm not there yet.

 

[grindel]

OK - not sure exactly what you want to do, but here's the solution for a COMMAND that has a path greater than 80 chars:
/usr/ucb/ps -auxww

My COMMAND is a java process, with the CLASSPATH and everything, so it's quite long. This ps command shows the whole thing.....