On Wed, 07.01.2009 at 08:54:41 -0600, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > > On Tue, 06.01.2009 at 11:52:39 -0800, Sheldon Givens wrote: > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> It occurs to me that FreeBSD ps lacks the ability to disable header. > >> This seems like a really obvious feature, and I may have simply > >> missed it's existence (despite my relentlessly searching the man > >> page) but here is a small patch that sets the flag 'n' to disable > >> header output. > > > > You've missed it, probably because it is non-obvious: > > > > % ps -p 1 -o pid,cpu > > PID CPU > > 1 0 > > % ps -p 1 -o pid= -o cpu= > > 1 0 > > % > > Another way: > ps | tail +2
I'm not sure about the portability of tail +N, I seem to remember that AIX doesn't support it. Therefore I'd rather use % ps | sed 1d which is way more portable. Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
