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Commands using ps

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_p(){ ps ax |grep $1 |sed '/grep.'"$1"'/d' |while read a;do printf ${a%% *}' ';printf "${a#* }" >&2;printf '\n';done;}
2012-04-01 19:45:17
User: argv
Functions: grep printf ps read sed
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process lister/killer - no pgrep and pkill

proc lister

usage: p

proc killer

usage: p patt [signal]

uses only ps, grep, sed, printf and kill

no need for pgrep/pkill (not part of early UNIX)

_p(){

ps ax \

|grep $1 \

|sed '

/grep.'"$1"'/d' \

|while read a;do

printf ${a%% *}' ';

printf "${a#* }" >&2;

printf '\n';

done;

}

p(){

case $# in

0)

ps ax |grep .|less -iE;

;;

1)

_p $1;

;;

[23])

_p $1 2>/dev/null \

|sed '/'"$2"'/!d;

s,.*,kill -'"${3-15}"' &,'|sh -v

;;

esac;

}

alas, can't get this under 255 chars.

flatcap?

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ps aux | awk '$11!~/\[*\]/ {print $6/1024" Mb --> "$11,$12,$13,$14}' | sort -g
2012-03-23 20:59:33
User: dererk
Functions: awk ps sort
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"What the hell is running on?!" Easily snoop your system's RAM consumption

Works on most unixes, on OpenBSD replace the "-g" parameter at the sort with a "-n".

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ps h --ppid $(cat /var/run/apache2.pid) | awk '{print"-p " $1}' | xargs sudo strace
2012-03-21 01:59:41
User: colinmollenhour
Functions: awk cat ps sudo xargs
Tags: awk apache ps strace
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easily strace all your apache *child* processes

Like the original version except it does not include the parent apache process or the grep process and adds "sudo" so it can be run by user.

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adb shell ps | grep my.app.packagename | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I ? sh -c "adb logcat -v time | grep ?"
2012-03-14 10:02:11
User: jackpatmos
Functions: awk grep ps sh xargs
Tags: adb
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Filter Android log output by PID
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adb shell ps | grep <process name> | awk '{print $2}' | xargs adb shell kill
2012-03-03 01:03:39
User: riansanderson
Functions: awk grep ps xargs
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kill an arbitrary process running on an Android device attached via USB debug cable

This is great when you need to reboot the system-server, or your own daemon that has gone crazy

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for i in $(ps x | grep chrome | cut -d"?" -f1 | grep -v chrome); do kill -9 $i ; done
2012-03-01 03:41:39
User: sandeepvreddy
Functions: cut grep kill ps
Tags: kill process kill google chrome
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Kill google chrome process

This one liner is to kill all google chrome tabs. This works similar to $ killall firefox command which is to kill all firefox processes.

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kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep [h]ttpd | awk '{print $2}')
2012-02-28 13:15:55
User: peterRepeater
Functions: awk grep kill ps
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Force kill all named processes
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PID=httpd ; ps aux | grep $PID | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
2012-02-21 23:27:47
User: esaenz
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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kill all pids from $PID

# define user pid to kill

PID=httpd ;

# kill all pids

ps aux | grep $PID | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

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for i in $(ps -eo pid,pmem,pcpu| sort -k 3 -r|grep -v PID|head -10|awk '{print $1}');do diff -yw <(pidstat -p $i|grep -v Linux) <(ps -o euser,pri,psr,pmem,stat -p $i|tail);done
2012-02-16 20:54:32
User: bob_the_builder
Functions: awk diff grep head ps sort
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Displays user-defined ps output and pidstat output about the top CPU or MEMory users.

It grabs the PID's top resource users with $(ps -eo pid,pmem,pcpu| sort -k 3 -r|grep -v PID|head -10)

The sort -k is sorting by the third field which would be CPU. Change this to 2 and it will sort accordingly.

The rest of the command is just using diff to display the output of 2 commands side-by-side (-y flag) I chose some good ones for ps.

pidstat comes with the sysstat package(sar, mpstat, iostat, pidstat) so if you don't have it, you should.

I might should take off the timestamp... :|

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ps -p $$
2012-02-09 17:27:45
User: robinsonaarond
Functions: ps
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Print current running shell, PID

works as well as echo $0, but also prints process id, which pts you're using. echo $SHELL doesn't always get updated when changing shells, so this is a better solution than that. Just one more variation on a theme.

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ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9
2012-01-27 20:31:36
User: k4ch0
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
Tags: awk xargs grep kill print ps
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Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN

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ps -eo rss,vsz,pid,cputime,cmd --width 100 --sort rss,vsz | tail --lines 10
2012-01-08 20:51:38
User: kenyon
Functions: ps tail
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Display the top 10 running processes - sorted by memory usage

A pretty nice display of processes.

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ps -ef | grep [j]ava | awk -F ' ' ' { print $1," ",$2,"\t",$(NF-2),"\t",$(NF-1),"\t",$NF } ' | sort -k4
2012-01-05 16:05:48
User: drockney
Functions: awk grep ps sort
Tags: sort awk grep ps
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Show WebSphere AppServer uid|pid|cell|node|jvms

Tested in bash on AIX & Linux, used for WAS versions 6.0 & up. Sorts by node name.

Useful when you have vertically-stacked instances of WAS/Portal. Cuts out all the classpath/optional parameter clutter that makes a simple "ps -ef | grep java" so difficult to sort through.

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sudo ps aux --sort:rss | awk '{print $2"\t"$11": "$6/1024" MB"}' | column -t | less
2011-12-08 17:23:18
User: threv
Functions: awk column ps sudo
Tags: memory usage Linux ps awk, sort
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Find and sort by Resident Size of each process on the system in MB
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ps -p pid -o logname |tail -1
2011-11-21 01:33:02
User: grep
Functions: logname ps tail
Tags: bash awk grep ps
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Get the name or user running the process of specified PID
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ps aux | grep PID | grep -v 'grep' | awk '{ print $1 }'
2011-11-05 04:53:29
User: nssy
Functions: awk grep ps
Tags: bash awk grep ps
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Get the name or user running the process of specified PID

Gets the current system user running a process with the specified pid

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ps -ef --sort=-%cpu
2011-10-14 21:57:51
User: aguslr
Functions: ps
Tags: cpu usage cpu proc process
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List processes sorted by CPU usage
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ps ewwo command PID | tr ' ' '\n' | grep \=
2011-09-15 12:07:46
User: axii
Functions: command grep ps tr
Tags: tr bsd ps environment ipso
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Given process ID print its environment variables

Same as previous but compatible with BSD/IPSO

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ps aux | sort -nk 6
2011-08-16 11:04:45
User: totti
Functions: ps sort
Tags: sort ps
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Sort output by column

(separator = $IFS)

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ps aux | sort --key=11 | uniq -c -d --skip-fields=10 | sort -nr --key=1,1
2011-07-19 07:11:29
User: aikikode
Functions: ps sort uniq
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find duplicate processes

This command will allow to search for duplicate processes and sort them by their run count. Note that if there are same processes run by different users you'll see only one user in the result line, so you'll need to do:

ps aux | grep <process>

to see all users that run this command.

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ps aux | awk {'sum+=$3;print sum'} | tail -n 1
2011-07-16 16:16:59
User: tailot
Functions: awk ps tail
Tags: cpu shell usage ps command percentage
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Display CPU usage in percentage
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REALUSERID=`TTYTEST=$(ps | awk '{print $2}' |tail -1); ps -ef |grep "$TTYTEST$" |awk '{print $1}'`;echo $REALUSERID
2011-07-09 16:27:21
User: khyron320
Functions: awk echo grep ps tail
Tags: sudo
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Find the USERid of a SUDOed user

Find the USERid of a SUDOed user who has either left their terminal logged in or for scripting purposes to track who ran what commands.

This only applys to users that do sudo su - USERNAME. not sudo su USERNAME

Sudo su without the dash allows use of (echo $SUDO_USER)

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ps -eo pid,args | grep -v grep | grep catalina | awk '{print $1}'
2011-06-27 14:29:49
User: evandrix
Functions: awk grep ps
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Get pid of running Apache Tomcat process
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ps -fu userid | awk '/userid/{print $2}' | xargs kill
2011-06-16 12:20:19
User: unxscorob
Functions: awk ps xargs
Tags: awk
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all out

to be executed from root. this works well on most commercial unix systems, have not tried on linux systems.

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ps -u `/usr/xpg4/bin/id -u`
2011-04-26 09:38:29
User: unixmonkey19863
Functions: ps
Tags: solaris10
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Find processes by current user on a Solaris box
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