Question about 'ps' and pipe

[walter harms]

martin.goodrich at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using busybox-1.9.0 and have encountered some issues that I would be grateful for someone to cast some light on.
> 
> The ps command seems to have changed and doesn't seem to support the '-ef' option anymore. I know that at one stage it did because the previous version that my device ran with was happy with those options. Unfortunately I don't know the version of busybox that originally came with the CD for my device.
> 
> The second issue is that the pipe '|' seems to discard data sent to its stdin, so for example if I type:
> 
> ps | more
> 
> I just return to the bash shell with nothing being sent to more's stdin.
> 
> I am still a relative newbie to busybox and would teally appreciate if somebody could fill in some of the detail for me.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin.
> 

hi martin.
bb offers a lot of option to configure but most commands still say what options they support eg.
 ps --help
BusyBox v1.9.0 (2008-02-05 19:33:29 CET) multi-call binary

Usage: ps

Report process status

Options:
        w       Wide output


So this version of ps supports ONLY "w" as option.

i have tried also ps w | more (and less if that matters) and it works fine for me.

re,
 wh