Why won't the root processes sort when I attempt sorting the users based on the number of processes running?

Question

Currently I am working in a remote environment where I would like to sort the number of users using up the most processes with the ps command.The only problem is; with my current command; the root user is not displayed which should be displayed. The first output is what I'm looking for, the latter is what I currently receive.

157 root
 12 apache
 11 brun1992
  4 bb
  2 postfix
  2 hart4492
  2 68
  1 USER
  1 sshd
  1 rpcuser

MY COMMAND:

 ps -eo user=|sort|uniq -c | head -n 10 | sort -r $1
         9 apache
         6 au6620
         5 ande7941
         4 cwen4344
         4 bb
         3 dagg9715
         2 evan8561
         2 brun1992
         2 alki2221
         1 dbus

Answer 1

This will work:

ps -eo user|sort|uniq -c|sort -gr

sort -gr is the key to it.

-g : Sort numerically.

Answer 2

The problem is you have the head before the sort. I think you are trying to find the top ten used usernames. First, as @rakesh-n says, you need to sort numerically.

But the problem is you get a list out of uniq that is sorted by username and then you take the top ten and only after that you sort by count. Have a look at your example and notice all the usernames start with a-e

ps -eo user=|sort|uniq -c | sort -r $1 | head -n 10