Small change to 'ps'

Sean C. Farley scf at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 7 15:24:44 UTC 2009


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

Sean
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