Hi,
    I am having some problems with grep with ps aux.

It seems when I tried to grep any string after the 80th column in the
output of `ps aux`, the grep fails.

E.g

 % ps aux  

gives

root       119  0.0  0.6  1984   780  ?  S  Jan 19   0:36 /usr/X11/bin/xdm -conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config

which gives a line of more than 80chars long.

Now, if I grep for say "config" - like so

  % ps aux | grep config

grep fails to come with any result - when the above should have been picked up.

Does anybody knows what's wrong here and if there is any fix for that.

I am running slackware 3.4 (Linux kernel 2.0.30)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

TIA

krishan

krishan.pura...@jet.uk

Use ps auxw.

Try 'ps auwx'

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