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ps: euid: keyword not found ps: egid: keyword not found ps: ni:2: keyword not found

Great :^(. It seems that that ps doesn't support field width. The field for the PPID is surprinsingly ;^) called "ppid". After searching for the manpage on google, I'd try something like ps -j, ps -l and ps -a -x -o pid,ppid (this last one is just for testing if ppid works).

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David Serrano