Characters chopped off when using 'ps -ef'

Question

Hello all:
When I monitor a java process, I use this commond:
ps -ef | grep MyJavaServiceit appears that MyJavaService has a long jar file list prepended as the classpath, the above command didn't show all the file names on the console - it's chopped in the middle.
Is there a limit of the numbers of the characters shown when using ps -ef | grep someProcess ?
Thanks,
Johnny

Answer 1

ps -ef | grep MyJavaServiceThere is a system limit on line length, check with:
# /usr/bin/getconf LINE_MAX
2048LINE_MAX: maximum number of characters that a utility can accept as an input line (either from the standard input or a text file) when the utility takes text files as input. This number includes the trailing newline.
Are you piping this through a pager such as less(1)? The ${LESS} environment variable can control whether long lines wrap or truncate.
What terminal emulator are you using? These can also be set to wrap or truncate long lines.