Question

In a bash shell using ps, is it possible to return just process names + PIDs without their paths?
For example, using ps -A I get something like this:

Octo:~ decavolt$ ps -A
PID TTY           TIME CMD
 1 ??        12:29.17 /sbin/launchd
10 ??         0:01.37 /usr/libexec/kextd
11 ??         7:03.37 /usr/sbin/DirectoryService
12 ??        18:16.71 /usr/sbin/notifyd
...

What I’d like to see is more like:

PID TTY           TIME CMD
 1 ??        12:29.17 launchd
10 ??         0:01.37 kextd
11 ??         7:03.37 DirectoryService
12 ??        18:16.71 notifyd
...

EDIT: Sorry, I should have clarified that this is on OSX 10.5 and 10.6

Answer 1

http://ss64.com/osx/ps.html

According to this page, the -c option should be what you’re looking for. Try that.