Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at
line 1018 of ps/output.c:
// The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004
Edition)
// requires that user and group names print as decimal numbers if there is
// not enough room in the column, so tough luck if you don't like it.
//
// The UNIX and POSIX way to change column width is to rename it:
// ps -o pid,user=CumbersomeUserNames -o comm
// The easy way is to directly specify the desired width:
// ps -o pid,user:19,comm
//
There are a few ways to handle this:
Very interesting. Thanks for the research Bruce.
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