Very Computer

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to custom-format the output of the ps command (creating a
pipe in a python script).
I did manage to display only the pid and process name but the problem
is that the second is too short.

--no-headers --columns=15
8118 lt-ncpd
8137 lt-plpnf

In fact, the second line should display

8137 lt-plpnfsd
(i.e. two missing letter, column not enough wide I guess)

It looks like my last argument (columns) is not taken into account. I
also tried cols and wide, with no result.
Thanks for your input,

Arnaud Beaud'huin

try comm instead of fname

--columns is for the screen length ... and defaults to the size
of your display

fname is just for the first 8 letters of the command
comm is for just the name of the command
and command is for the entire command line that is was run with
args seems to do the same as command .. but it might include
even more info

Problem solved !

Quote:> --columns is for the screen length ... and defaults to the size
> of your display

Without your help I would still be searching like mad in this
direction...

Quote:> fname is just for the first 8 letters of the command
> comm is for just the name of the command
> and command is for the entire command line that is was run with
> args seems to do the same as command .. but it might include
> even more info

Not self-evident even reading carefully through the ps man page...
Maybe these STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS are common to other commands
and information about them is to be found somewhere else...

Anyway, thanks a lot !!

Arnaud

it was the word screen that should have giving the hint about
this not being what you were looking for
you wern't trying to change the screen width but a varables
width

even still knowing that you still had 5 varables to try
with the discription COMMAND

Quote:

>> fname is just for the first 8 letters of the command
>> comm is for just the name of the command
>> and command is for the entire command line that is was run with
>> args seems to do the same as command .. but it might include
>> even more info
> Not self-evident even reading carefully through the ps man page...
> Maybe these STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS are common to other commands
> and information about them is to be found somewhere else...

> Anyway, thanks a lot !!

no problem ... I had to run the man page through my sys admin
decoder ring a few times to figure out the diffrence ...