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Terminal - Commands using ps - 204 results
ps -o lstart <pid>
2010-10-18 17:09:02
User: nottings
Functions: ps
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display date of last time a process was started in `date` format

STARTED

Mon Oct 18 04:02:01 2010

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for p in `ps L|cut -d' ' -f1`;do echo -e "`tput clear;read -p$p -n1 p`";ps wwo pid:6,user:8,comm:10,$p kpid -A;done
2010-10-12 06:42:10
User: AskApache
Functions: cut echo ps
Tags: bash hidden echo read while exec function source for clear tput ps askapache command while loop return
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The Hidden PS

While going through the source code for the well known ps command, I read about some interesting things.. Namely, that there are a bunch of different fields that ps can try and enumerate for you. These are fields I was not able to find in the man pages, documentation, only in the source.

Here is a longer function that goes through each of the formats recognized by the ps on your machine, executes it, and then prompts you whether you would like to add it or not. Adding it simply adds it to an array that is then printed when you ctrl-c or at the end of the function run. This lets you save your favorite ones and then see the command to put in your .bash_profile like mine at : http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

Note that I had to do the exec method below in order to pause with read.

t ()

{

local r l a P f=/tmp/ps c='command ps wwo pid:6,user:8,vsize:8,comm:20' IFS=' ';

trap 'exec 66

exec 66 $f && command ps L | tr -s ' ' >&$f;

while read -u66 l >&/dev/null; do

a=${l/% */};

$c,$a k -${a//%/} -A;

yn "Add $a" && P[$SECONDS]=$a;

done

}

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ps -ef | grep [j]boss | awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9
2010-09-30 15:55:41
User: utoxin
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
Tags: kill
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Kill any process with one command using program name

Removed unneeded grep -v by making the initial grep unable to match itself.

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ps ax | grep -c [c]at
2010-09-23 20:18:29
User: utoxin
Functions: grep ps
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count how many cat processes are running

'ps ax' provides the fill list of running processes.

'grep -c [c]at' will find all processes that match 'cat' without matching itself....

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ps -cx cat
2010-09-23 12:28:07
User: krissi
Functions: ps
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count how many cat processes are running
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ps -a | grep -c cat
2010-09-23 03:59:43
User: SunX
Functions: grep ps
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count how many cat processes are running
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ps -a |grep cat |wc -l
2010-09-22 23:57:19
User: schmiddim
Functions: cat grep ps wc
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count how many cat processes are running
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ps ax --format=pid,eip,esp,user,command
2010-09-02 12:40:41
User: cicatriz
Functions: ps
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Getting ESP and EIP addresses from running processes

'ps' let you specify the format that you want to see on the output.

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ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u
2010-07-07 12:29:46
User: dfaulkner
Functions: cut ps sort
Tags: sort sorting ps users processes
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Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
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ps -eo user | sort -u
2010-07-07 12:28:44
User: dfaulkner
Functions: ps sort
Tags: sort sorting ps users processes
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Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

Shows a list of users that currently running processes are executing as.

YMMV regarding ps and it's many variants. For example, you might need:

ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u
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wmctrl -l -p | while read line; do ps -o cmd= "$(echo "$line" | awk '$0=$3')"; done > ~/.windows
2010-07-04 22:11:24
User: matthewbauer
Functions: ps read
Tags: X X11 windows X Window wmctrl
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Save your open windows to a file so they can be opened after you restart

This will save your open windows to a file (~/.windows).

To start those applications:

cat ~/.windows | while read line; do $line &; done

Should work on any EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager.

If you use DWM or another Window Manager not using EWMH or NetWM try this:

xwininfo -root -children | grep '^ ' | grep -v children | grep -v '<unknown>' | sed -n 's/^ *\(0x[0-9a-f]*\) .*/\1/p' | uniq | while read line; do xprop -id $line _NET_WM_PID | sed -n 's/.* = \([0-9]*\)$/\1/p'; done | uniq -u | grep -v '^$' | while read line; do ps -o cmd= $line; done > ~/.windows
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ps auxwww | grep outofcontrolprocess | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
2010-06-30 15:52:52
User: unixmonkey8311
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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kill all instances of an annoying or endless, thread-spawning process
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ps ux|grep <process name>|awk '{print $2}'|xargs -n 1 kill
2010-06-18 20:12:37
User: metalx1000
Functions: awk grep ps xargs
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Kill process by searching something from 'ps' command
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ps h -o pid,command | grep 'TEXT' | sed 's/^ \+//' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs -n 1 kill
2010-06-18 18:44:22
User: tiagofischer
Functions: cut grep ps sed xargs
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Kill process by searching something from 'ps' command
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ps -o comm,%mem,args -u www-data
2010-05-22 15:13:25
User: servermanaged
Functions: ps
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Nicely display mem usage with ps

Nicely display mem usage with ps.

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command ps wwo pid,user,group,vsize:8,size:8,sz:6,rss:6,pmem:7,pcpu:7,time:7,wchan,sched=,stat,flags,comm,args k -vsz -A|sed -u '/^ *PID/d;10q'
2010-05-18 18:41:38
User: AskApache
Functions: command ps sed
Tags: cpu usage memory memory usage bash cpu sort sed process ps askapache processes
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Viewing Top Processes according to cpu, mem, swap size, etc.

I've wanted this for a long time, finally just sat down and came up with it. This shows you the sorted output of ps in a pretty format perfect for cron or startup scripts. You can sort by changing the k -vsz to k -pmem for example to sort by memory instead.

If you want a function, here's one from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

aa_top_ps(){ local T N=${1:-10};T=${2:-vsz}; ps wwo pid,user,group,vsize:8,size:8,sz:6,rss:6,pmem:7,pcpu:7,time:7,wchan,sched=,stat,flags,comm,args k -${T} -A|sed -u "/^ *PID/d;${N}q"; }
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ps hax -o user | sort | uniq -c
2010-04-29 10:43:03
User: buzzy
Functions: ps sort uniq
Tags: sort uniq ps processes
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processes per user counter

awk is evil!

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ps aux |awk '{$1} {++P[$1]} END {for(a in P) if (a !="USER") print a,P[a]}'
2010-04-28 15:25:18
User: benyounes
Functions: awk ps
Tags: ps processes awk, sort
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processes per user counter

enumerates the number of processes for each user.

ps BSD format is used here , for standard Unix format use : ps -eLf |awk '{$1} {++P[$1]} END {for(a in P) if (a !="UID") print a,P[a]}'

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ps aux|grep -i [p]rocessname|awk '{ print $2 }'|xargs kill
2010-04-10 18:42:27
User: billcarroll
Functions: awk grep ps xargs
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search for and kill a process in one blow
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ps -ef |grep oracle |grep pmon |awk '{print $2}' |xargs -I {} ps eww {} |grep pmon |grep -v grep |awk '{print $5 " " $6 " " $0}' |sed 's/\(S*\) \(S*\) .*ORACLE_HOME/\1 \2/g' |cut -f1,2,3 -d" "
2010-03-23 20:36:59
User: brianmuckian
Functions: awk cut grep ps sed xargs
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the executable that started the currently running oracle databases and the ORACLE_HOME relative to each

get a list of currently running oracle dbs (identified by the pmon process)

show the executable that spawned the process and

show the ORACLE_HOME relative to the environment within which the process is running

tailored to AIX (sed on linux behaves...differently)

suggestions for a better way...please.

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ps uH p <PID_OF_U_PROCESS> | wc -l
2010-03-23 15:05:27
User: mrbyte
Functions: ps wc
Tags: java ps
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Count threads of a jvm process

if you have problem threads problem in tomcat

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ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10
2010-03-03 16:51:48
User: bwm71
Functions: awk ps sort tail
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Top ten (or whatever) memory utilizing processes (with children aggregate) - Can be done without the multi-dimensional array
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ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk '{ proc_list[$2]++; proc_list[$2 "," 1] += $1; } END { for (proc in proc_list) { printf("%d\t%s\n", proc_list[proc "," 1],proc); }}' | sort -n | tail -n 10
2010-03-03 16:41:05
User: d34dh0r53
Functions: awk ps sort tail
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Top ten (or whatever) memory utilizing processes (with children aggregate)

This command loops over all of the processes in a system and creates an associative array in awk with the process name as the key and the sum of the RSS as the value. The associative array has the effect of summing a parent process and all of it's children. It then prints the top ten processes sorted by size.

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psgrep() { if [ ! -z $1 ] ; then echo "Grepping for processes matching $1..." ps aux | grep -i $1 | grep -v grep else echo "!! Need name to grep for" fi }
2010-02-27 13:47:28
User: evenme
Functions: echo grep ps
Tags: grep ps
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psgrep

Grep for a named process.

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ps axo rss,comm | awk '{sum+=$1; print $1/1024, "MB - ", $2} END {print "\nTotal RAM Used: ", sum/1024, "MB\n"}'
2010-02-18 12:05:45
User: johnss
Functions: awk ps
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Pull Total Memory Usage In Virtual Environment

This command basically adds up all of the individual instances processes and gives you a grand total for used memory in that instance alone.

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