Viewing full output of PS command
It is likely that you're using a pager such as less
or most
since the output of ps aux
is longer than a screenful. If so, the following options will cause (or force) long lines to wrap instead of being truncated.
ps aux | less -+S
ps aux | most -w
If you use either of the following commands, lines won't be wrapped but you can use your arrow keys or other movement keys to scroll left and right.
ps aux | less -S # use arrow keys, or Esc-( and Esc-), or Alt-( and Alt-)
ps aux | most # use arrow keys, or < and > (Tab can also be used to scroll right)
Lines are always wrapped for more
and pg
.
When ps aux
is used in a pipe, the w
option is unnecessary since ps
only uses screen width when output is to the terminal.
Using the auxww
flags, you will see the full path to output in both your terminal window and from shell scripts.
darragh@darraghserver ~ $uname -a
SunOS darraghserver 5.10 Generic_142901-13 i86pc i386 i86pc
darragh@darraghserver ~ $which ps
/usr/bin/ps<br>
darragh@darraghserver ~ $/usr/ucb/ps auxww | grep ps
darragh 13680 0.0 0.0 3872 3152 pts/1 O 14:39:32 0:00 /usr/ucb/ps -auxww
darragh 13681 0.0 0.0 1420 852 pts/1 S 14:39:32 0:00 grep ps
ps aux
lists all processes executed by all users. See man ps
for details. The ww
flag sets unlimited width.
-w Wide output. Use this option twice for unlimited width.
w Wide output. Use this option twice for unlimited width.
I found the answer on the following blog:
http://www.snowfrog.net/2010/06/10/solaris-ps-output-truncated-at-80-columns/