Weird console bug

[Doug Barton]

Ivan Radovanovic wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <4A80778B.8090708 at gmail.com>, Ivan Radovanovic writes:
>>
>>  
>>> ps -axj | grep opera
>>> You will receive different results depending on width on console
>>> window (for example, for me no results on normal text mode console,
>>> in X it depends on width of console you are executing above command in).
>>>     
>>
>> See the -w option to ps
>>
>>   
> 
> Thanks, anyway I find this behavior weird when redirecting or piping...

And how does ps know when it's being redirected or piped?


Doug

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