diff --git a/psutil/_compat.py b/psutil/_compat.py
index 08aefe4b7..c772f61d6 100644
--- a/psutil/_compat.py
+++ b/psutil/_compat.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 import sys
 
 __all__ = ["PY3", "long", "xrange", "unicode", "basestring", "u", "b",
-           "lru_cache", "which"]
+           "lru_cache", "which", "get_terminal_size"]
 
 PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
 
@@ -239,3 +239,24 @@ def _access_check(fn, mode):
                     if _access_check(name, mode):
                         return name
         return None
+
+
+# python 3.3
+try:
+    from shutil import get_terminal_size
+except ImportError:
+    def get_terminal_size(fallback=(80, 24)):
+        try:
+            import fcntl
+            import termios
+            import struct
+        except ImportError:
+            return fallback
+        else:
+            try:
+                # This should work on Linux.
+                res = struct.unpack(
+                    'hh', fcntl.ioctl(1, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, '1234'))
+                return (res[1], res[0])
+            except Exception:
+                return fallback
diff --git a/scripts/cpu_distribution.py b/scripts/cpu_distribution.py
index 67f25b2d9..c509c7328 100755
--- a/scripts/cpu_distribution.py
+++ b/scripts/cpu_distribution.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 import time
 
 import psutil
+from psutil._compat import get_terminal_size
 
 
 if not hasattr(psutil.Process, "cpu_num"):
@@ -59,24 +60,6 @@ def clean_screen():
         os.system('cls')
 
 
-def get_terminal_size(fallback=(80, 24)):
-    try:
-        # Added in Python 3.3
-        from shutil import get_terminal_size as gts
-        return gts(fallback=fallback)
-    except ImportError:
-        try:
-            # This should work on Linux.
-            import fcntl
-            import termios
-            import struct
-            res = struct.unpack(
-                'hh', fcntl.ioctl(1, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, '1234'))
-            return (res[1], res[0])
-        except Exception:
-            return fallback
-
-
 def main():
     num_cpus = psutil.cpu_count()
     if num_cpus > 8:
diff --git a/scripts/ps.py b/scripts/ps.py
index f7857f21f..fd2a8ec44 100755
--- a/scripts/ps.py
+++ b/scripts/ps.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """
-A clone of 'ps -aux' on UNIX.
+A clone of 'ps aux'.
 
 $ python scripts/ps.py
 ...
@@ -16,32 +16,32 @@
 
 import psutil
 from psutil._common import bytes2human
+from psutil._compat import get_terminal_size
 
 
 def main():
     today_day = datetime.date.today()
     templ = "%-10s %5s %5s %7s %7s %5s %6s %6s %6s  %s"
-    attrs = ['pid', 'memory_percent', 'name', 'cpu_times',
+    attrs = ['pid', 'memory_percent', 'name', 'cmdline', 'cpu_times',
              'create_time', 'memory_info', 'status', 'nice', 'username']
     print(templ % ("USER", "PID", "%MEM", "VSZ", "RSS", "NICE",
-                   "STAT", "START", "TIME", "NAME"))
+                   "STATUS", "START", "TIME", "CMDLINE"))
     for p in psutil.process_iter(attrs, ad_value=None):
-        pinfo = p.info
-        if pinfo['create_time']:
-            ctime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(pinfo['create_time'])
+        if p.info['create_time']:
+            ctime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(p.info['create_time'])
             if ctime.date() == today_day:
                 ctime = ctime.strftime("%H:%M")
             else:
                 ctime = ctime.strftime("%b%d")
         else:
             ctime = ''
-        if pinfo['cpu_times']:
+        if p.info['cpu_times']:
             cputime = time.strftime("%M:%S",
-                                    time.localtime(sum(pinfo['cpu_times'])))
+                                    time.localtime(sum(p.info['cpu_times'])))
         else:
             cputime = ''
 
-        user = pinfo['username']
+        user = p.info['username']
         if not user and psutil.POSIX:
             try:
                 user = p.uids()[0]
@@ -51,20 +51,22 @@ def main():
             user = user.split('\\')[1]
         user = user[:9]
 
-        vms = bytes2human(pinfo['memory_info'].vms) if \
-            pinfo['memory_info'] is not None else ''
-        rss = bytes2human(pinfo['memory_info'].rss) if \
-            pinfo['memory_info'] is not None else ''
-        memp = round(pinfo['memory_percent'], 1) if \
-            pinfo['memory_percent'] is not None else ''
-        nice = int(pinfo['nice']) if pinfo['nice'] else ''
-        name = pinfo['name'] if pinfo['name'] else ''
+        vms = bytes2human(p.info['memory_info'].vms) if \
+            p.info['memory_info'] is not None else ''
+        rss = bytes2human(p.info['memory_info'].rss) if \
+            p.info['memory_info'] is not None else ''
+        memp = round(p.info['memory_percent'], 1) if \
+            p.info['memory_percent'] is not None else ''
+        nice = int(p.info['nice']) if p.info['nice'] else ''
+        if p.info['cmdline']:
+            cmdline = ' '.join(p.info['cmdline'])
+        else:
+            cmdline = p.info['name']
+        status = p.info['status'][:5] if p.info['status'] else ''
 
-#        status = PROC_STATUSES_RAW.get(pinfo['status'], pinfo['status'])
-        status = pinfo['status'][:5] if pinfo['status'] else ''
-        print(templ % (
+        line = templ % (
             user[:10],
-            pinfo['pid'],
+            p.info['pid'],
             memp,
             vms,
             rss,
@@ -72,8 +74,8 @@ def main():
             status,
             ctime,
             cputime,
-            name
-        ))
+            cmdline)
+        print(line[:get_terminal_size()[0]])
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':