ps_fields(7)

ps_fields7

Field descriptions used by ps and top here descriptions for all fields used by ps or top are given. each field is associated to two strings, the field header, which is displayed by the program to indicate which informatioon is provided and the field tag, which is used in the -o or --format command line options as well as in the $ps_format and $top_format environment variables to indicate which fields are to be displayed. in both command line options (which can be given multiple times) and the environment variables the syntax of the fields is a comma-separated list of tags (case-insensitive) with an optional fields size assignment: tag1[=n1],tag2[=n2],... the format here is:

Notes

The fields user, ruser, group, rgroup, pid, ppid, pgid, pcpu, vsz, nice, etime, time, tty, comm, args and their associated headers are as of POSIX 1003.2.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 1.2
  2. 1.3

Bugs

The comm field displays only the basename of the command, not the full path as POSIX wants. This is, however, considered a feature. Use args for full information.

From procps 1.12.2 in Debian 1.3 (Bo). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.