From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 13:35: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DAE37B844 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Received: from elmo.johnturner.com (adsl-static-1-C7B2BC85.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [199.178.188.133]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA83109; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:41:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000803163359.04b63108@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:34:44 -0400 To: Nathan Vidican , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Turner Subject: Re: ps -ax runs off the screen In-Reply-To: <3989D5C5.D100AE49@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG to get the output into a file try ps ax | grep ftpd > myfile.txt then open myfile.txt (or whatever you choose to call it) - John Turner At 04:27 PM 8/3/2000 -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >When I do a ps -ax | grep "ftpd:" , it tends to run off the screen if >the hostname is too long. Does the process simply not display anything >past X amount of characters wide, or would it somehow be possible to >pipe the output of 'ps -ax' to a text file? > > >-- >Nathan Vidican >webmaster@wmptl.com >Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. >http://www.wmptl.com/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message