ps command

[Manel Ventura]

When I execute "ps -ef | grep ..." only a part of the job appears. How I can see the whole command that it's being executed?

[someone_4]

Can you post the output you get?
And what you are trying to get?
If it is a job try the command
jobs


Richard

[Richard Darling]

Manel, If I understand your question correctly...it maybe that the line is long. If the line is long it will wrap onto a new line.
RD

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manel:

Only a subset of the command line is saved by the kernel and is thus displayed to the 'ps' command. This is noted in the man pages for 'ps'.

...JRF...

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Manel

I think you want to look at all the related commands ,
try this

ps -ef | grep ....

get the pid

then again

do ps -ef | grep on the pid

Manoj Srivastava

[Mark Vollmers]

You could also pipe the results of the grep to a file that you could view with vi. This would allow you to see the results if the line was wrapping around.

ps -ef |grep "string" > /tmp/file

Mark

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

It seems your communication software setting might need some modification. What are you using to connect to your unix box. Set your Terminal Connection Software setting. Under Terminal Settings --> General ---> set Auto wrap to on.

Hope this helps

Thanks
Sanjay

[Philip P. Hartl]

You can also try "$set col=200". This will allow you to see all that is retained in the command buffer.

[Manel Ventura]

Hi,

Looking in the man pages for 'ps' I found the parameter I needed. The option "-x" shows the command line in extended format.

Before:
ps -ef | grep cpp
root 2615 2614 0 22:38:32 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/ccs/lbin/cpp -DHOST=c200 -DSERVERHOST=c200 -DSRVR_c2

Now:
ps -xef | grep cpp
root 2615 2614 0 22:38:32 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/ccs/lbin/cpp -DHOST=c200 -DSERVERHOST=c200 -DSRVR_c200 -DDISPLAY_NUM=0 -DCLIENTHOST=c200 -DCLNT_c200 -DVERSI
ON=11 -DREVISION=0 -DVENDOR="Hewlett-Packard Company" -DVNDR_Hewlett_Packard_Company -DRELEASE=600000 -DNUM_SCREENS=1 -DEXT_SYNC -DEXT_SLSd -DEXT_RECORD -DEXT_HP_COLOR
_RECOVERY -DEXT_Get_RGB_Image -DEXT_DPMS -DEXT_XIE -DEXT_DOUBLE_BUFFER -DEXT_Multi_Buffering -DEXT_SECURITY -DEXT_XC_APPGROUP -DEXT_LBX -DEXT_XC_MISC -DEXT_MIT_SUNDRY_
NONSTANDARD -DEXT_BIG_REQUESTS -DEXT_XTEST -DEXT_XInputExtension -DEXT_MIT_SHM -DEXT_SHAPE -DEXT_XTestExtension1 -DEXT_ShareExtension -DEXT_HPExtension -DSCREEN_NUM=0
-DWIDTH=1280 -DHEIGHT=1024 -DX_RESOLUTION=3743 -DY_RESOLUTION=3751 -DPLANES=8 -DBITS_PER_RGB=8 -DCLASS=PseudoColor -DCLASS_PseudoColor=32 -DCOLOR -DCLASS_PseudoColor_8
=32 -DCLASS_TrueColor_8=33

I think this is a new feature of the 'ps' on HP-UX11i.

Thank you everybody for your help.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi manel,

Hope i got your name right. Just tried the x options with ps. It did not work on my system. I have ux 11.0 on this. Guess you are right, it is new with ux 11i

Thanks for the info
Sanjay

[Thomas Yake]

On some systems, the

/usr/ucb/bin/ps -aux -ww | grep

will give you exactly what you are looking for.

[Marcelo De Florio_1]

You can execute this command:

UNIX95= ps -u $user -o comm,args

Another option is use lsof utility.

(you obtain this utiluity http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/alpha.html)

MDF

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi Manel,

Normaly ps -ef reports the entire commands running in the system with their arguments.

Try redirecting the output od this command into a file and edit it to see what is missing.

Perhaps your screen is miss configured to print on next line the exceeded 80 characters.

Magdi