>Synopsis: ps(1) u output alignment between USER and PID
>Category: user
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 5.2
Details : OpenBSD 5.2 (GENERIC) #278: Wed Aug 1 10:04:16 MDT
2012
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/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
Machine : i386
>Description:
It seems when the USER length is 9 characters and the PID length is
less than 5 characters,
ps u will still place 2 characters of space between the columns,
seemingly unecessarily shifting
the columns over. 8 charactrs USER and 5 charcter PID's end up with
only 1 space. Example,
sysadmin 19610 0.0 0.0 676 508 p1 ...
Gdnscache 5827 0.0 0.5 10368 10736 C0- ...