A lot of this depends on your OS and your terminal software. The syntax you would use can vary depending on which *nix you're running so 'man ps' and RTFM. The terminal emulator you use should have line wrapping turned on (if it's an option). Other options may help as well - RTFM again and YMMV.

The reason I'm not actually answering your question is that 'ps -ef' on my Debian system accessed via putty from my WinXP system emulating an xterm with Autowrap turned on displays long paths/command lines (167 characters) just fine. I do recommend piping the 'ps -ef' through an appropriate grep (eg 'ps -ef | grep <username>').

Hope this helps, Jack

P.S. You might want to mark your off-topic (non Perl related) questions as such by putting 'OT' in the title.

Jack

In reply to Re: (OT) How to use ps unix command to see the task full command by jcoxen
in thread (OT) How to use ps unix command to see the task full command by Anonymous Monk

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