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Kalle Richter
Asked: 2016-03-18 08:04:14 +0800 CST

How to avoid horizontal scrolling in "systemctl status"?

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In a long line in systemctl status it's necessary to scroll horizontally which makes it quite hard to copy the output. Is there a way to get linebreaks at the end of terminal (like nano -$ would do)?

I'm not looking for a workaround like redirecting the output into a temporary file and displaying it with an editor which supports the output.

I'm using Ubuntu 15.10.

systemd

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  1. Best Answer

    You could use the --no-pager option in conjunction with the --full option, which will force the lines to wrap:

    systemctl status --no-pager --full

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    If you want to preserve the paging functionality, you can just pipe the output of systemctl status to less / more directly, since connecting the command's STDOUT to a pipe will force the command to print a raw output:

    systemctl status | less
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