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.
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