ps line buffer

[Kenny Lussier]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Michael ODonnell <
michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> > ps auxww truncates command at 4096 characters,
> > [developers] want to see the entire thing...
>
> If they know the PID in question this might work:
>
>   xargs -0 < /proc/$PID/cmdline
>

Apparently  /proc/$PID/cmdline only holds 4096 characters as well (on RHEL5
at least).

Thanks,
Kenny
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