On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:51:17PM -0500, linda hanigan wrote:
| Hi all,
| I am using a system call to ps in a program I am writting.
A piece of nomenclature: you probably mean "the system() function". I
whinge about this merely because the term "system call" has a specific
concrete meaning: a call of one of the kernel API calls (open, exec,
etc - the primitives).
| I am using:
| ps -f -p pid
| The output is
| UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
| general 16661 16660 0 17:34 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
|
| I would like the output to be
| general 16661 17:34 -bash
|
| I can of course work with the output to make it look like
| I want. However I was wondering if their was a way
| ps would allow me to select which fields I want to show.
| I know ps h -f -p pid will get rid of the header.
Check out the -o option. Lets you pick and choose by supplying a crude
format string.
Cheers,
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