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How can I see the name of a process owner from the OSX prompt?

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Mar 15, 202614006 views
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Problem

If I run in the OSX terminal, the list of processes includes the UID - the numerical user id of the process owner. How can I see the name of the process owner?

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ps -ef

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Fix for: How can I see the name of a process owner from the OSX prompt?

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Use the flag. For example, , or combined with other flags, like . The man page ( ) describes the flag like this: Print information associated with the following keywords: user, pid, ppid, pgid, sess, jobc, state, tt, time, and command. The "user" pa…

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