Where am I going wrong on the sorting? I feel I should know this and I'm missing something obvious. . . . But no matter what I key the sort on, it is always in pid order.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps -eo user,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,stat,start_time,cputime,comm --sort=cputime|head USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 548 72 S Oct09 00:00:00 init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 SW Oct09 00:00:00 migration_CPU0 root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 SW Oct09 00:00:00 migration_CPU1 root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 SW Oct09 00:00:00 kmcheck root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 SW Oct09 00:00:00 keventd root 6 0.3 0.0 0 0 SWN Oct09 00:10:04 ksoftirqd_CPU0 root 7 0.4 0.0 0 0 SWN Oct09 00:10:22 ksoftirqd_CPU1 root 8 1.6 0.0 0 0 SW Oct09 00:42:10 kswapd root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 SW Oct09 00:00:00 bdflush [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> The only consolation I have is that the example on the man page does worse: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps jax --sort=uid,-ppid,+pid ERROR: Unknown sort specifier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
