[mdlug] Difference between ps aux & ps auxw

[Mat Enders]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Brian Brodsky
<brianbrodsky at ameritech.net>wrote:

> In the past I found w to limiting and used ps aux --width 255 instead.
> Now instead of BSD style I have switched back to AT & T Unix style
> instead and use ps -ef. I find the information more useful especially
> the parent process id.
>
> ps -ef does not tell you the CPU and MEMORY being used by individual
processes


menders-laptop menders # ps aux | grep [U]SER
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
menders-laptop menders # ps -ef | grep [U]ID
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD


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