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Tim Mishutin
Tim Mishutin

Reputation: 174

ps columns auto width

ps -eo user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,group,args | awk 'match($0, /some[0-9]/)' - When I run this command on my Debian server, the output of the "group" column will be stripped due to not enough space. Man ps: "egroup EGROUP effective group ID of the process. This will be the textual group ID, if it can be obtained and the field width permits, or a decimal representation otherwise. (alias group)." I have tried:

ps -eo user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,group,args | awk 'match($0, /some[0-9]/)'

ps -wwo user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,group,args | awk 'match($0, /some[0-9]/)'

ps --width 90000000 -eo user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,group,args | awk 'match($0, /some[0-9]/)'

ps -wweo user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,group,args | awk 'match($0, /some[0-9]/)' | cat

But still, the group column is converted to decimals instead of group name.

So my question is: How can I tell ps to always show me full columns.

Note: this command is running thru php exec().

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1909

Answers (1)

Tim Mishutin
Tim Mishutin

Reputation: 174

Problem was solved by adding a width to a column itself:

ps -eo user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,group:50,args | awk 'match($0, /some[0-9]/)'

Where 50 from "group:50" is the width of the column.

Upvotes: 4

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