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ps
Format Specifications
Using the –o option, the user can define the status fields that will be displayed and
their column headings. If you do not specify the –o option, ps displays the
information as though you specified:
-o pid,tty=TTY -o atime,comm
The format specification is a list of status field names separated with blanks or
commas. However, if the list of names is separated by blanks, the list must be
contained in single quotes. Below you’ll find a list of status field names recognized
by ps.
Multiple –o format specifications can be provided and, in the case where
user-specified column headings are defined, these specifications may be necessary.
The first line of ps output contains column headings for each status field. Each
status field has a default heading which can be overridden by the user by specifying
=newheading after the status field. When a new heading is specified, it must be the
last field given on the –o option. To specify additional fields, it is necessary to use
additional –o statements.
For example, if you wish to display the process id (pid), real user name (ruser), and
command name (comm), but change the heading for the real user name from the
default of (RUSER) to WHO, use:
-o pid,ruser=WHO -o comm
An additional –o is required when comm is specified because the last argument must
be user-specified headings (in this case ruser=WHO).
If you specify = with no heading, ps displays that column without a heading. If none
of the columns have a heading, ps displays no heading line.
In a doublebyte locale, user-defined headings may contain multibyte (doublebyte)
characters.
The following list shows the names that ps recognizes. The list is separated into
three groups:
process only
These are fields which only display meaningful data for process output
lines. For thread output lines, a dash is shown in these fields.
thread only
These are fields which only display meaningful data for thread output lines.
For process output lines, a dash is shown in these fields.
processes and threads
These are fields that apply to both processes and threads. For example,
state is meaningful because both processes and threads have a state that
can be determined for them.
At the end of each description, we put the default column heading inside square
brackets.
Process Only
addr Displays the address of the process. This field is currently not supported
and will display a dash. [ADDR]
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