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Old 07-11-2009
bash ps; remove the header, sort and reinsert
Hi,
I'm ssh'ing into a server using ruby and sending a one-liner to retrieve the output of the 'ps aux' command. So far, this is what I have:
ps aux | sort -r -n -k3 | sed -e '1s/^/this is first\n/' | head -n10

With this I can insert a line at position 1, but I would rather extract the header before the sort and reinsert it before the pipe to head.

Any help is appreciated.
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Old 07-11-2009
Hi..

If you remove the -n option from sort, the header appears first. Is thiat not what you want?
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Old 07-11-2009
Exactly! I had a feeling that I was missing something obvious. Thanks a bunch.
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Old 07-21-2009
Why does removing the -n option do that? Does the -n option change all values in a column to a number or something?
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