Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-5 Severity: minor File: /bin/ps
Expected behaviour: If I want wide output, I should have to specify it. Actual behaviour: I get wide output as a side effect of piping the output of "ps" through other commands. I used to be able to do a "ps ax | grep java", and get sane, terminal-readable output. Sometime since then, the "ps" command seems to have changed to default to wide output when it's output is sent through a pipe. Since some of my java processes have commandlines 1,000s of characters long, this makes the output of "ps ax | grep java" unreadable... Yes, I can do a "ps ax --width 80 | grep ..."... but this is silly and unintuitive and a change from the way it's always been before. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21+crackerjack (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages procps depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 22.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
