I’m not really sure what it is you’re asking for here. As another commenter said, ps outputs a list of newline separated entries (using \n, the standard LF character). I even ran some sanity checks to make sure it wasn’t using \r\n (CR LF) with the following:
The output of ps aux | grep$USER is consistent with the formatting of ps aux. I also found that ps aux | grep$USER was consistent with ps -fp $(pgrep -d, -u $USER) except that ps -fp $(pgrep -d, -u $USER) shows the header (UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD), does not show the processes related to the command (entries of ps aux and grep --color=auto $USER), and does not show grep’s keyword matching by highlighting all matches within a line. It is otherwise completely identical.
Can you provide the output that you are getting that is unsatisfactory to you? I don’t think I can otherwise understand where the issue is.
I’m not really sure what it is you’re asking for here. As another commenter said,
psoutputs a list of newline separated entries (using\n, the standard LF character). I even ran some sanity checks to make sure it wasn’t using\r\n(CR LF) with the following:$ ps aux | grep $USER | tr -cd "\n" | wc -m 14 $ ps aux | grep $USER | tr -cd "\r" | wc -m 0The output of
ps aux | grep $USERis consistent with the formatting ofps aux. I also found thatps aux | grep $USERwas consistent withps -fp $(pgrep -d, -u $USER)except thatps -fp $(pgrep -d, -u $USER)shows the header (UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD), does not show the processes related to the command (entries ofps auxandgrep --color=auto $USER), and does not show grep’s keyword matching by highlighting all matches within a line. It is otherwise completely identical.Can you provide the output that you are getting that is unsatisfactory to you? I don’t think I can otherwise understand where the issue is.