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Terminal - Commands using ps - 244 results
ps aux | grep [h]ttpd | cat -n
2009-12-17 20:45:44
User: putnamhill
Functions: cat grep ps
Tags: cat
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count and number lines of output, useful for counting number of matches

If you're on a system that doesn't have nl, you can use cat -n.

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ps aux | grep [a]pache2 | nl
2009-12-17 18:48:09
User: donnoman
Functions: grep ps
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count and number lines of output, useful for counting number of matches

Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

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ps ax| awk '/[h]ttpd/{print $1}'| xargs kill -9
2009-12-07 09:53:18
User: r00t4u
Functions: awk kill ps xargs
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Killing multiplpe process for one program like apache, wget, postfix etc.
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ps aux| grep -v grep| grep httpd| awk {'print $2'}| xargs kill -9
2009-12-06 05:39:50
User: r00t4u
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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Killing multiplpe process for one program like apache, wget, postfix etc.
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ps -o thcount -p <process id>
2009-12-04 14:39:53
User: lukasz
Functions: ps
Tags: count process thread thcount
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Return threads count of a process

Source: http://superuser.com/questions/49408/how-do-i-monitor-or-view-the-thread-count-of-a-certain-process-on-aix

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psu(){ command ps -Hcl -F S f -u ${1:-$USER}; }
2009-11-13 06:10:33
User: AskApache
Functions: command ps
Tags: bash tree pstree process ps askapache username
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Output Detailed Process Tree for any User

An easy function to get a process tree listing (very detailed) for all the processes of any gived user.

This function is also in my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

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ps -ec -o command,rss | grep Stainless | awk -F ' ' '{ x = x + $2 } END { print x/(1024) " MB."}'
2009-11-04 19:01:22
User: unixmonkey6893
Functions: awk grep ps
Tags: macosx sum Stainless.app
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Sum of the total resident memory Stainless.app is using.

Adds up the total memory used by all Stainless processes: 1 Stainless, 1 StainlessManager and 1 StainlessClient per tab open.

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ps -eo pcpu,user,pid,cmd | sort -r | head -5
2009-11-03 14:41:55
User: ferqwerty
Functions: head ps sort
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Display top 5 processes consuming CPU
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ps -eo user,pcpu,pmem | tail -n +2 | awk '{num[$1]++; cpu[$1] += $2; mem[$1] += $3} END{printf("NPROC\tUSER\tCPU\tMEM\n"); for (user in cpu) printf("%d\t%s\t%.2f\t%.2f\n",num[user], user, cpu[user], mem[user]) }'
2009-10-29 12:49:01
User: georgz
Functions: awk ps tail
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cpu and memory usage top 10 under Linux

The original version gives an error, here is the correct output

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ps aux --sort=%mem,%cpu
2009-10-10 22:48:51
User: mrwill
Functions: ps
Tags: Process Management ps
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Sort all running processes by their memory & CPU usage

you can also pipe it to "tail" command to show 10 most memory using processes.

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ps -ef | grep pmon
2009-10-10 03:13:46
User: Sriregati
Functions: grep ps
Tags: file count
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Count the total number of files in each immediate subdirectory
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ps -C program_name || { program_name & }
2009-09-24 03:35:39
User: syssyphus
Functions: ps
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Restart command if it dies.

works well in crontab.

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ps -u<user>
2009-09-16 05:24:41
User: sathyz
Functions: ps
Tags: ps
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get users process list
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psg() { ps aux | grep "[${1[1]}]${1[2,-1]}"; }
2009-09-07 04:37:11
User: jedahan
Functions: grep ps
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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

alias ps?='psg' for maximum hawtness. Works in bash or zsh.

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ps -ef | awk '/process-name/ && !/awk/ {print}'
2009-08-19 11:22:09
User: dopeman
Functions: awk ps
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Search for an active process without catching the search-process

This does the same thing as many of the 'grep' based alternatives but allows a more finite control over the output. For example if you only wanted the process ID you could change the command:

ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'

If you wanted to kill the returned PID's:

ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' | xargs -i kill {}
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command ps -Hacl -F S -A f
2009-08-19 07:08:19
User: AskApache
Functions: command ps
Tags: Process Management pstree ps shell signal process heirarchy
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View Processeses like a fu, fu

I don't truly enjoy many commands more than this one, which I alias to be ps1.. Cool to be able to see the heirarchy and makes it clearer what need to be killed, and whats really going on.

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ps aux | grep [c]ommandname
2009-08-17 12:29:16
User: alvinx
Functions: grep ps
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omit grep
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ps -C command
2009-08-14 15:30:42
User: recursiverse
Functions: ps
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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik)

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ps aux | grep [p]rocess-name
2009-08-13 05:44:45
User: olorin
Functions: grep ps
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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

As an alternative to using an additional grep -v grep you can use a simple regular expression in the search pattern (first letter is something out of the single letter list ;-)) to drop the grep command itself.

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ps aux | grep process-name | grep -v "grep"
2009-08-13 04:40:16
User: pavanlimo
Functions: grep ps
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Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
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ps -A
2009-08-11 16:52:59
User: xraj
Functions: ps
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ps -A

list all the processes

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ps -o comm= -p $(ps -o ppid= -p $$)
2009-08-03 07:41:21
User: olorin
Functions: ps
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Who invoked me? / Get parent command

Get the name of the parent command. This might be helpful, if you need to react on that information. E. g. a script called directly via ssh has got sshd as parent, manually invoked the parent process will probably be bash

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ps -o rss -C httpd | tail -n +2 | (sed 's/^/x+=/'; echo x) | bc
2009-07-31 15:15:08
User: ricardoarguello
Functions: echo ps sed tail
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How much RAM is Apache using?

Display the amount of memory used by all the httpd processes. Great in case you are being Slashdoted!

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ps -u $USER |grep $1 | awk '{ print $1}'| xargs kill
2009-07-20 10:06:32
User: buffer
Functions: awk grep ps xargs
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Kill a process with its name

Well this can come handy , when you don't feel like playing with pid rather if you know

the process name say "firefox",it would kill it.The script given below would kill the process with its name given as first parameter , though not robust enough to notify that process doesn't exist , well if you know what you are doing that's wouldn't be a problem.:)

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killhim.sh

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#!/bin/bash

ps -u $USER |grep $1 | awk '{ print $1}'| xargs kill

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ps ax -o "%p %U %u %x %c %n"
2009-07-14 17:21:59
User: servermanaged
Functions: ps
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Format ps command output

ps command gives the possibility to display information with custom formatting with the -o options followed by the format specifier list.

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