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What is the difference between

ps -ef | grep thin

and

ps aux | grep thin

As per the output there is a variation but i'm not clear what are the things being listed.

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answered 2 Years ago tisglitter · Accepted Answer

Both list all processes of all users. In that aspect -e and ax are completely equivalent.

Where they differ is output format specifier, -f is "full", while u is "user-oriented". The displayed columns are different:

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND