Generating a CSV list from Linux 'ps'
Suppose I have a ps command that looks like this:
ps -Ao args:80,time,user --sort time
It will give me a "space" separated set of rows. A row might look like this
paulnath -bash 00:00:00
I would like to convince ps to delimit by commas(or tabs even!), such that it can be processed automagically by other languages. Please note that args will probably have spaces in it, so, awking by field won't per se work.
Answer
You can use the following syntax to put your own delimiter:
ps -Ao "%U,%t,%a"