guesswidth guesses the separator position in CLI output.
The output of the ps command has no delimiters, making the values difficult to machine-readable.
guesswidth is smarter at guessing separators than just spaces.
There is also a guesswidth command.
go install github.com/noborus/guesswidth/cmd/guesswidth@latestGuess the width output with no delimiters in the command.
$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
302965 pts/3 00:00:12 zsh
733211 pts/3 00:00:00 ps
733212 pts/3 00:00:00 tee
733213 pts/3 00:00:00 guesswidthSplit the output like this:
$ ps | guesswidth
PID| TTY | TIME|CMD
302965| pts/3 | 00:00:08|zsh
539529| pts/3 | 00:00:00|ps
539530| pts/3 | 00:00:00|guesswidthIt can be converted to csv.
$ ps | guesswidth csv
PID,TTY,TIME,CMD
302965,pts/3,00:00:12,zsh
733211,pts/3,00:00:00,ps
733212,pts/3,00:00:00,tee
733213,pts/3,00:00:00,guesswidth