[please keep the list in the loop, and please don't top-post on technical lists]
According to Jan Girke on 2/12/2010 10:30 AM: > Hi Eric > > Unfortunately sort is no help at all > ( > r...@computer:/# ps -e | sort > unless you do that monster, > "r...@computer:/# ps -eo "%c %y %U %p"|sort" > but I haven't figured a way to sort the first list alphabetically. That all depends on what you want to sort by. For example, if you wanted to sort by process names as the textual primary key, and process id as the numeric secondary key, try: ps -e | sort -k4,4 -k1,1n > >> And how exactly do you propose mapping 'process name' back to a particular >> process, when there may well be more than one process with the same argv0 >> running at the same time? > > sort by name then tty, user, pid How does that sorting solve determining which process you intended to kill? -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected]
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