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The output I get from that command is pretty much aligned in columns.   
Maybe you can extract the columns with cut -c.

On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Eduardo Meyer wrote:

> ps -ax -o pid -o user -o emul -o lstart -o lockname -o stat -o command