[ale] more/grep truncates piped results

[John Wells]

Thanks for your replies.  Both worked.
John

Danny Cox said:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:16, Fletch wrote:
>> It's not more and grep, it's ps itself truncating the output (probably
>> assuming a width of 80 columns if its output is a pipe).  Try
>> something along the lines of this (presuming a Bourney shell of some
>> description, of course):
>>
>>
>> COLUMNS=120 ps -ef | grep foooble
>
> 	You might also note 'ps -efww | gre[ foooble' will also do the trick.
>
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