how output ps aux | grep aUser and keeping Newline ?
how output ps aux | grep aUser and keeping Newline ?
Hi,
by doing a
ps aux | grep UserName
The output do not keep the LF[^1] đĄ
I've found some solution online by they involve 3 or more pipe | !
On my side, I've made this
ps -fp $(pgrep -d, -u UserName)
But still I found it not super human readable.
Is their a native way with ps to filter users ? or to grep it but the keep the LF ?
[^1]: linefeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linefeed#Representation
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psoutputs a newline after every entry. What are you trying to accomplish?Do you have a username that contains a newline character? If so⊠why?!
Security by overcomplication
Kinda hard to encode it in
/etc/passwd, which separates entries with newlines and fields of an entry with colons.Of course, you can activate some alternative user database in
/etc/nsswitch.confand then you can have your usernames with newlines in them, but at least half of the tools on your system that process usernames will take that personallyâŠ