full command is missing in ps aux output ubuntu 20

Question

Version:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

When i check my process' with htop or ps aux i cant see the rest of my command after first pipe

command i run is :

ping -i 0.5 4.2.2.4 | while read row; do awk '{ $1=strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",substr($0,2,10));print $0}' <<< $row;done | grep 'no answer' | tee log.txt > log_store.txt

and ps aux output is:

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 Mar20 ?        00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd
root        23     1  0 Mar20 ?        00:00:01 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
root        25     1  0 Mar20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron -f
root        28     1  0 Mar20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown --wait-for-signal
root        31    30  0 Mar20 ?        00:00:24 ping -i 0.5 4.2.2.4  <--------------

As can be seen only ping portion up to first pipe is shown, is there a way to see rest somehow ?

Answer 1

you've pipe ping to 3 subsequent process ( awk , grep and tee ), thoses process should appear somewhere on ps aux 's output.

1. note that bash syntax (in this case while loop ) do not appear in ps's output as it is internal to bash.

2. ps -ef -H (-H as Hierachy) might be a better choice than ps aux.