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Commands using ps

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ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 " " $11}' | grep -w Z
2009-02-06 02:38:20
User: liupeng
Functions: awk grep ps
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find out zombie process
8~osstat, $2~pid, $11~cmd
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ps auxf
2009-02-05 18:07:16
User: systemj
Functions: ps
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ps with parent/child process tree

Shows a tree view of parent to child processes in the output of ps (linux). Similar output can be achieved with pstree (also linux) or ptree (Solaris).

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ps -ef | grep APP | awk '/grep/!{print$2}' | xargs -i kill {}
2009-02-05 16:10:05
User: hooobs
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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find and kill a pid for APP

Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.

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ps -e | grep SearchStringHere
2009-02-05 15:41:00
User: Sanjay
Functions: grep ps
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Search for a running process through grep
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ps -ef | grep $USER
2009-02-05 14:57:39
User: ryodoan
Functions: grep ps
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Find all processes running under your username.

I like to make it an alias in my .bashrc file, as such:

alias psme='ps -ef | grep $USER'

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ps awwwux | grep httpd | grep -v grep | awk '{mem = $6; tot = $6 + tot; total++} END{printf("Total procs: %d\nAvg Size: %d KB\nTotal Mem Used: %f GB\n", total, mem / total, tot / 1024 / 1024)}'
2009-02-05 14:19:51
User: bpfx
Functions: awk grep ps
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Total procs, avg size (RSS) and Total mem use
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ps -ef | grep [f]oo | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
2009-02-05 13:43:01
User: eredicatorx
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
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kill all foo process

Kill all processes with foo in them. Similar to pkill but more complete and also works when there is no pkill command.

Works on almost every Linux/Unix platform I have tried.

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ps -auwx|egrep hunger|grep -v grep| awk '{print "kill -9",$1}' > ~/fu.bar
2009-02-05 11:43:38
User: lendellray
Functions: awk ps
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find all processes named hunger and force kill, minus the grep itself and output to a file called fu.bar
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ps aux | sort -nk +4 | tail
2009-01-23 17:12:33
User: root
Functions: ps sort
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Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

ps returns all running processes which are then sorted by the 4th field in numerical order and the top 10 are sent to STDOUT.

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