Bug 29916

Summary:	systemctl should default to --full if stdout is not tty
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lennart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	low	CC:	zbyszek
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2010-08-31 16:23:25 UTC

I'd expect 'systemctl | cat' do ignore terminal width.
E.g. 'systemctl | grep virtio' and 'systemctl --full | grep virtio' should give the same result, but they don't.

Another small thing:
even with --full, the descriptions are truncated to terminal width anyway. Would be nice if they could be printed in full when output is not a terminal. This
is useful when the description contains the un-mangled device name which one want to copy.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2010-09-05 17:33:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> I'd expect 'systemctl | cat' do ignore terminal width.
> E.g. 'systemctl | grep virtio' and 'systemctl --full | grep virtio' should give
> the same result, but they don't.

Hmm, interesting idea. Also see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626891

> Another small thing:
> even with --full, the descriptions are truncated to terminal width anyway.
> Would be nice if they could be printed in full when output is not a terminal.

This is now fixed in v9.

Comment 2 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2010-09-06 11:21:23 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > I'd expect 'systemctl | cat' do ignore terminal width.
> > E.g. 'systemctl | grep virtio' and 'systemctl --full | grep virtio' should give
> > the same result, but they don't.
> 
> Hmm, interesting idea. Also see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626891
Basically this part is a duplicate of the other bug. I'm going to reply over there.

> > Another small thing:
> > even with --full, the descriptions are truncated to terminal width anyway.
> > Would be nice if they could be printed in full when output is not a terminal.
> 
> This is now fixed in v9.
Yes. Works!

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2010-10-08 07:13:50 UTC

I closed the rhbz bug a while back, closing this one too.

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