linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Processes

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Processes

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 18:16, james_jolin <jjolin@itol.com> wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@...> wrote:
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>> James Jolin wrote:
>> > I know the subject is not quite what I want to know, but there is a
>> > command to list running processes and I can't remember what it is.
>> > Jim
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>> ps -A (all running processes
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>> - -a (all *your* processes)
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> Thanks Robert.
> Jim\

man ps

there's quite a bit of info you can get about running processes that way.

Examples to try:

ps axf
ps auxf
ps axo pid,comm

also, if you like trees:

pstree

is useful

Cheers,

Jeff