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Terminal - Commands using ps - 198 results

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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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who;ps aux|grep ssh

2011-04-01 06:32:28

User: wynemo

Functions: grep ps who

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see who is on this machine

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ps -eo stat= | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

2011-03-25 13:01:42

User: fossilet

Functions: ps sort uniq

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count processes with status

Use ps instead of top. But do not use BSD options at all, they are confusing.

Use "s=" or "state=" to show consice process statuses.

2011-03-24 08:29:15

User: theist

Functions: cut grep ps

Tags: svn

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Fix all the commit log messages from a user of a bad subversion client

Let's supose some moron used some m$ shit to commit to a later svnsynced repo. On a svn sync all his message logs cause a svnsync: Error setting property 'log': this commands finds all its contributions and fix all his commit logs

ps ax | grep -i ProcessName| kill -9 `awk '/FileName.Ext/ {print $1}'`

2011-03-24 02:49:49

User: bytesabit

Functions: grep kill ps

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Look for process by filename in command then kill the process

Outputs the PID of any given file run from a command line... Hope it helps!

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ps axu | awk '{if (NR <=7) print; else if ($8 == "D") {print; count++} } END {print "Total status D: "count}'

2011-03-21 04:32:56

User: eneko

Functions: awk ps

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count processes with status

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ps -C apache o pid= | sed 's/^/-p /' | xargs strace

2011-03-15 08:46:33

User: depesz

Functions: ps sed xargs

Tags: awk token ps strace tokenizer

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easily strace all your apache processes

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ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace

This is sample output - yours may be different.

ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace
Process 7313 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7395 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7396 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7397 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7398 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7399 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7401 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7403 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7448 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7468 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7469 attached - interrupt to quit
attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): No such process
[pid  7313] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 48000} <unfinished ...>
[pid  7395] poll([{fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=85, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 10, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7396] semop(1572864, {{0, -1, SEM_UNDO}}, 1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7397] semop(1572864, {{0, -1, SEM_UNDO}}, 1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7398] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7399] semop(1572864, {{0, -1, SEM_UNDO}}, 1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7401] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7403] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7448] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7468] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7469] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7313] <... select resumed> )      = 0 (Timeout)
[pid  7313] gettimeofday({1300139401, 36665}, NULL) = 0
[pid  7313] waitpid(-1, 0xffdc0a68, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = 0
[pid  7313] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
[pid  7313] gettimeofday({1300139402, 39688}, NULL) = 0
[pid  7313] waitpid(-1, 0xffdc0a68, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = 0
[pid  7313] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0} <unfinished ...>
Process 7313 detached
Process 7395 detached
Process 7396 detached
Process 7397 detached
Process 7398 detached
Process 7399 detached
Process 7401 detached
Process 7403 detached
Process 7448 detached
Process 7468 detached
Process 7469 detached

2011-03-14 21:45:22

User: px

Functions: awk grep ps xargs

Tags: awk token ps tokenizer

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easily strace all your apache processes

This one-liner will use strace to attach to all of the currently running apache processes output and piped from the initial "ps auxw" command into some awk.

pss() { ps -eo pid,args | sed '/'"$1"'/!d;/sed/d' ; }

2011-03-14 15:51:49

User: vando

Functions: ps sed

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Find the correct PID

I know you can use pidof but with this you can know the specific PID with his command arguments (useful if you're running various proccess with same application)

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ps -eo pmem,pid,comm --no-headers | sort -k1 -rn | head -10

2011-03-11 04:51:35

User: dexterhu

Functions: head ps sort

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show top 10 most memory hungry process with a simple format of (%mem, pid, short command)

Pros: the format is very simple, there is no need to show every columns, and full command with args

the first column is memory consumption %

the second column is pid

the third is just the command (without full arguments, most application's arguments are too long)

You can decide which application to kill then.

ps ax | egrep "*.exe|*exe]" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill

2011-03-01 09:48:47

User: coffeeaddict_nl

Functions: awk egrep ps xargs

Tags: kill wine exe

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kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

Look mah! All pipes

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