UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone,

Simple I think? The ps command on linux seem to cut off the full command and makes grep useless, unlike Solaris. Here is an example:

Solaris

ps -aef|grep blue
larry 7111 1 0 Mar 26 ? 0:00 xterm -fg white -bg black -cr blue -j -s -sl 100

Linux

ps -aef|grep blue
nothing, but when I do just < ps -aef|grep whit > I get

larry 6064 5561 0 13:00 pts/0 00:00:00 xterm -fg white -bg black -cr bl


It cut off the blue. Is there a way for ps to display all and be able to grep for it?

Try ps -aefw | grep blue.

Thanks oombera,

I did not see the w option when I did a man on ps.

You're welcome - the -w option stands for "wide output".

On fairly recent Linux versions, using the /proc filesystem, you can do this:

Code:

{ cat /proc/<PID>/cmdline; echo; } |tr "\0" " "