systemctl output is truncated

Question

A need to grep the output for this command:

systemctl | grep failed

The problem is that it does not show complete units:

systemd-...-clean.service loaded failed failed        Cleanup of Temporary Directories
systemd-...-setup.service loaded failed failed        Recreate Volatile Files and Directories
tcsd.service              loaded failed failed        LSB: Init script for TCSD
cups.socket               loaded failed failed        CUPS Printing Service Sockets

Your can see the units show like: systemd-...es-clean.timer for systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service

I tried with a file:

systemctl --failed > file

Or cat:

systemctl --failed | cat

But the problem is the same. I need some help to understand why that happens and how fix it.

Answer 1

This is not related to pipes, is systemctl's behavior. Use the --full switch to get full names:

--full
    Do not ellipsize unit names and truncate unit descriptions in the
    output of list-units and list-jobs.