View full commands in ps output

If you have a POSIX-conforming ps implementation, you may try

ps -f | more

Note that we¹ recently changed the behavior and if you have an implementation that follows POSIX issue 7 tc2, you may try:

ps -wwf | more

¹ _{We being the people who have weekly teleconferences to discuss the evolvement of the POSIX standard.}

I've probably found the answer for your question on Stack Overflow. In the words of Dennis Williamson:

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.

(Note: this applies to non-embedded Linux, the ps utility on other Unix variants may work differently.)

For simplicity, try this: ps auxfww