randall r schulz rgpoguasonicnet tuesday 12 february 2008 1111 anders johansson wrote tuesday 12 february 2008 200418 dave crouse wrote many versions ps truncate lines certain length cant determine terminal size know even said thats whats happening started truncating individual fields case name program instead truncating whole line something done seems trying clever examples gave applications swapped ps doesnt access real command line instead prints programs base name recorded process table signified enclosing name square brackets cleverness discarding trailing square bracket truncating string inside square brackets ever run pipe default width must used since output going directly terminal anders madness takes toll randall schulz tue 05 aug 2008 190512 0800 opensuse ps vs grep