STATE of process

can we see the state of process in unix
I know ps can do that ..
can someone point out the actual syntax,the man pages are not very clear about this

yaar ps itself is a process so jab wo run kar rahi hogi to aur koi to run kar hi nahi rahi hogi to runing in user mode/running in kernel mode mein to koi process hogi hi nahi

type ps -o STAT
this will give you the states of all the processes

there are many other options along with STAT that can be used with -o for getting detailed information about the process
refer to the man page of ps

This is the error which i got when i keyed in "ps -o STAT"

ERROR: Unknown user-defined format specifier "STAT".
********* simple selection ********* ********* selection by list *********
-A all processes -C by command name
-N negate selection -G by real group ID (supports names)
-a all w/ tty except session leaders -U by real user ID (supports names)
-d all except session leaders -g by session OR by effective group name
-e all processes -p by process ID
T all processes on this terminal -s processes in the sessions given
a all w/ tty, including other users -t by tty
g OBSOLETE -- DO NOT USE -u by effective user ID (supports names)
r only running processes U processes for specified users
x processes w/o controlling ttys t by tty
*********** output format ********** *********** long options ***********
-o,o user-defined -f full --Group --User --pid --cols --ppid
-j,j job control s signal --group --user --sid --rows --info
-O,O preloaded -o v virtual memory --cumulative --format --deselect
-l,l long u user-oriented --sort --tty --forest --version
-F extra full X registers --heading --no-heading --context
********* misc options *********
-V,V show version L list format codes f ASCII art forest
-m,m,-L,-T,H threads S children in sum -y change -l format
-M,Z security data c true command name -c scheduling class
-w,w wide output n numeric WCHAN,UID -H process hierarchy

try this ps -axo stat,pid,ppid

Now it's working...