Mini HOWTOS.

Well this was something i needed to do the other day and as I would not need to do it again for some time, and would therefore forget what i did. i simply wrote it down for later use

Take a look as the man page for the command ps. Well thats about it really. Ok, a little more info would be nice.

What is needed is to change the format of the output to give the required information. I my case I wanted to see only the PID, user name, the command name and the memory usage. This will give the following:

Take a look at the section STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS there are a hole bunch of them to choose from.