title: Getting around truncated "ps"
body: <p>I'm trying to write a script that will find a particular process based on a keyword, extract the PID, then kill it using the found PID.</p>
  
  <p>The problem I'm having in Solaris is that, because the "ps" results are truncated, the search based on the keyword won't work because the keyword is part of the section (past 80 characters) that is truncated.</p>
  
  <p>I read that you can use "/usr/ucb/ps awwx" to get something more than 80 characters, but as of Solaris 10, this needs to be run from root, and I can't avoid that restriction in my script.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any suggestions for getting that PID? The first 80 characters are too generic to search for (part of a java command).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>