what's the value of the "w" option in ps?

Jason Schoon floydpink at gmail.com
Tue May 30 21:40:18 UTC 2006


On 5/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>   maybe i'm just not seeing this, but i see no aesthetic difference in
> running "ps" versus "ps -w".  hints?


I saw a big difference, in that my fingers are trained to type "ps ax" or
something similar, which results in an error message when wide support is
enabled, versus being happily ignored when it isn't.

I turned it off and never looked back.
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