One might often find it useful to redirect/or filter the output generated by the 'ps' command. This simple patch provides an option (i.e. '-H') to display no header line so it does not need to be considered e.g. crash> ps -u -H | head -5 1 0 1 ffff956e8028d280 IN 0.0 174276 9272 systemd 1067 1 2 ffff956e81380000 IN 0.1 59480 15788 systemd-journal 1080 1 0 ffff956e8d152940 IN 0.0 36196 3548 systemd-udevd 1278 1 6 ffff956e8aa60000 IN 0.0 17664 3072 systemd-oomd 1366 1 7 ffff956e88548000 IN 0.0 10868 2328 dbus-broker-lau Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin(a)atomlin.com&gt; --- help.c | 3 ++- task.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/help.c b/help.c index 99214c15..14981cd0 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@ NULL char *help_ps[] = { "ps", "display process status information", -"[-k|-u|-G|-y policy] [-s] [-p|-c|-t|-[l|m][-C cpu]|-a|-g|-r|-S|-A]\n [pid | task | command] ...", +"[-k|-u|-G|-y policy] [-s] [-p|-c|-t|-[l|m][-C cpu]|-a|-g|-r|-S|-A|-H]\n [pid | task | command] ...", " This command displays process status for selected, or all, processes" , " in the system. If no arguments are entered, the process data is", " is displayed for all processes. Specific processes may be selected", @@ -1458,6 +1458,7 @@ char *help_ps[] = { " -r display resource limits (rlimits) of selected, or all, tasks.", " -S display a summary consisting of the number of tasks in a task state.", " -A display only the active task on each cpu.", +" -H display no header line.", "\nEXAMPLES", " Show the process status of all current tasks:\n", " %s> ps", diff --git a/task.c b/task.c index db2abc81..88941c7b 100644 --- a/task.c +++ b/task.c @@ -3504,7 +3504,7 @@ cmd_ps(void) cpuspec = NULL; flag = 0; - while ((c = getopt(argcnt, args, "ASgstcpkuGlmarC:y:")) != EOF) { + while ((c = getopt(argcnt, args, "HASgstcpkuGlmarC:y:")) != EOF) { switch(c) { case 'k': @@ -3615,6 +3615,10 @@ cmd_ps(void) flag |= PS_ACTIVE; break; + case 'H': + flag |= PS_NO_HEADER; + break; + default: argerrs++; break; -- 2.37.3