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Parsing would involve mostly fixed-width column data; The difficulty arises when the data in some columns exceeds the width and pushes rightward columns over. Other strategies could be to "consume" no-whitespace-words left-to-right after noting the column ordering output.

I simply don't want to start out writing this if it's already been done.

Excerpt of some sample output below. Note the last line shows the TIME column overly wide.

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMA
+ND
root      6332  1.0  0.0   4096   660 ?        S    06:25   0:00 /bin/
+sh ./monitor.sh /var/log/kern.log.1
root      6349  0.0  0.0  14976  1116 ?        R    06:25   0:00 /bin/
+ps auxw
ntp      10330  0.0  0.0  25808  1532 ?        Ss   Jul23   0:16 /usr/
+sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 106:115
root     13438  0.0  0.2  10248  4512 ?        Ss   Jul03   0:00 /usr/
+sbin/knockd -d -i eth0
bind     24285  4.6  2.2 212112 46136 ?        Ssl  Jul17 1056:29 /usr
+/sbin/named -u bind

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