'ps' behavoir in Linux - Was - Re: array limits

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:57:57PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Brian K. White cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> 
> on linux and freebsd to get full argment list I use ps auxwww
> you can add more w's to get more stuff to the right. after the command and
> it's arguments it will list some of the environment, up to all of it if you
> give enough w's
> 
> try ps auxwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |less -S

After the second w, the rest are redundant.  I haven't used more than that
in years, and in linux's proc-ps, I don't think more than two ever had more
meaning.  I think they may have done in BSD 4.3,but that was a longggggg
time ago.

'ps auxww' is all you need.

> Note that the missing "-" in "ps auxwww" but present in "ps -elf" is not a
> typo.

They took the warnings out a long time back, apparently.  RH 7.2 doesn't
have warnings on the "-".

mark->
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