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# 1  
Old 04-30-2008
word wrap issue with grep
in my HP-Unix environment I continue to have issues seeing the whole file path when I do a grep

Example:

>ps -ef |grep test
>[process id, etc] /testpath/is/here/

should see:
>ps -ef |grep test
>[process id, etc] /testpath/is/here/not/here/test

Is there a setting to turn word wrap on/off? It works fine in our AIX environments...

TIA
Andrew
# 2  
Old 04-30-2008
from the pas man page the section on args (what is truncated for you )
Quote:
args The command line given when the process was
created. This column should be the last one
specified, if it is desired. Only a subset of the
command line is saved by the kernel; as much of
the command line will be displayed as is
available. The output in this column may contain
spaces. The default heading for this column is
COMMAND if -o is specified and CMD otherwise.

# 3  
Old 04-30-2008
Unlike AIX on HP-UX one needs to supply the -x switch (x for eXtended) in order to display the entire process line.

Code:
ps -efx

# 4  
Old 04-30-2008
AFAIK - even with -x it still is not guaranteed to show the entire command line.
# 5  
Old 04-30-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
AFAIK - even with -x it still is not guaranteed to show the entire command line.
Yes -x does not guarantee to show the entire command line unless it is less than or equal to 1K. Check it out here
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