I come from a Solaris background, and my fingers can't seem to get used to typing ps -aux instead of ps -ef. So I wrote this script called ps-ef to save some sanity and format the ps output as close to Solaris style as I could. It will pass on any options to OS X's ps, so something like ps-ef -ww will work too. Just make it executable (chmod +x and put it somewhere in your path.
#!/bin/bash
pformat="user=UID,pid,ppid,cpu=C,start=STIME,tty,time,command"
psarglist=
psarglistlong=
while true ; do
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
break;
fi
optchar=${1:1}
case $optchar in
O|o|p|t|U)
shift
psarglistlong="$psarglistlong -$optchar $1"
;;
*)
psarglist="$psarglist$optchar"
;;
esac
shift
done
ps -ax$psarglist $psarglistlong -o $pformat
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