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Quartz | Level 8

this is not a sas question at all, this is unix question, I could not find an answer to this, hope i find it here...

 

ps -ef in AIX gives "UID" in the first column, but the UID it displays only 8 characeters, I need entire uid , some of the uid's length is more than 8, how can i print whole uid ? please advise

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alexal
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@Go,

 

You have to use the flag -X. -X prints all available characters of each user/group name instead of truncating to the first eight characters.

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alexal
SAS Employee

@Go,

 

You have to use the flag -X. -X prints all available characters of each user/group name instead of truncating to the first eight characters.

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Quartz | Level 8
Alexal,
It worked, thank you very much... I tried ls -lXp before instead of ls -ll , but did not realize I could ues -X with ps -ef , thank you...

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