Need help with awk or else

[waxwork]

Hi,

I've got a big problem that makes me crazy. By using the command : ps -efo user,tty,pid,ppid,pcpu,cpu,etime,time,args

I would like to forma the result as below

Process User TTY PID PPID %CPU C START TIME Command
------- ---- --- --- ---- ---- - ----- ---- -------

I use awk for that and here is the code

ps -efo user,tty,pid,ppid,pcpu,cpu,etime,time,args | tail +2 | awk 'BEGIN {


fmt="%-40s %-10s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s\n"
printf fmt, "Command", "User","Terminal","PID","PPID","%CPU","C","START","Time"
trt=sprintf(fmt,"-----------------","--------","---------","---------","-------"
,"-------","-------","-------","-------")
printf trt
}
{ fmt="%-40s %-10s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s\n"
printf fmt,$9,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8
}'

But because of the column "Command" format, which can include more than 1 argument with spaces, awk think there is more than one argument.
How can i get the entire argument from the 8th one? Or do you think about an alternative solution??

Thankx!!

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

try something like
ps -efo user,tty,pid,ppid,pcpu,cpu,etime,time,args | tail +2 | {while read C U T P PP PC CPU ET TI
do

print $C $U $T etc ....
done
}

 

[PHV]

You may try something like this:
ps -efo user,tty,pid,ppid,pcpu,cpu,etime,time,args | awk '
BEGIN {
fmt="%-40s %-10s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %-9s %s\n"
printf fmt,"Command","User","Terminal","PID","PPID","%CPU","C","START","Time","Args"
printf fmt,"-----------------","--------","---------","---------","-------","-------","-------","-------","-------",""
}
NR>1 {
a="";for(i=10;i<=NF;++i)a=a" "$i
printf fmt,$9,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,a
}'


Hope This Helps, PH.
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[waxwork]

It works fine. Thanks.

But i didn't understand your answer, can you explain me ??

Thankx

 

[PHV]

a="";for(i=10;i<=NF;++i)a=a" "$i
Concatenate all the remaining fields from the 10th into a variable named a.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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