ps aux not wrapping lines

Question

When I do 'ps aux' a lot of the lines are longer than the width of my terminal, and not wrapping to the next line. At first I thought it was my stty settings, but I noticed that other commands like netstat do wrap lines in my terminal. I would prefer not to be forced to use less or some other pager.

Does anybody know why the lines are not wrapping? and how to fix?

Answer 1

from man(1) ps OUTPUT MODIFIERS

[UN*X]  -w   Wide output.  Use this option twice for unlimited width.
[BSD]   w    Wide output.  Use this option twice for unlimited width.

I tend to the UN*X variant ps -ef and add, as a mnemonic, word wrap to make: ~ $ ps -efww but ~ $ ps auxww is equivalent.