[NBLUG/talk] bash help

[JM]

Hi,

if my ps axw shows this process is there a way to get the time?

im trying awk -F'[ ]' '{print $4}'

17797 ?        S      0:00 /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_01/....


but my problem lies on the number of spaces betwen ? and S and S to time..

TIA,