From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T18:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Help: Efficient regular expression

On 7/11/07, Paolo Negri <hungrylist@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can process the ps output using other commands.
>
> ps -aef|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f2,8-
>
> This will just print your second column the 8th and anything that
> comes after. At this point your regexp only need to split the string
> at the first space.

You're in trouble if any of your fields have spaces, though the
specific case of ps -aef looks safe enough.

martin