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Terminal - Commands using ps - 242 results
export proc=chrome && ps aux | grep $proc | grep -v grep |awk '{print $2}'
2012-10-16 07:19:36
User: bknarendra
Functions: awk export grep ps
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List process ids (including parent and child process) of a process given its name. Similar to pgrep
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ps axo %mem,pid,euser,cmd | sort -nr | head -n 10
2012-10-12 03:27:26
User: lainme
Functions: head ps sort
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Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usage

A nicer display from http://www.web-manual.net/linux-3/find-out-top-10-cpu-memory-consuming-processes/

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ps wwwwuax|awk '/command/ { printf("kill -9 %s\n",$2) }'|/bin/sh
2012-08-14 21:44:38
User: jetdillo
Functions: awk ps
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Kill all processes belonging to a user

Okay, commands like this are a bit of a personal peeve. awk(1) operates on a /pattern/ {action} paradigm and yet I see people leave out the /pattern/ portion of an awk command all the time, opting to use grep or sed instead. You'll save yourself some typing and time if you include the /pattern/ with your {action}.

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ps -fu $USER | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill [-9]
2012-07-06 21:17:01
User: carlossiscomtec
Functions: awk kill ps xargs
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Kill all processes belonging to a user
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ps auxww | grep application | grep processtobekilled | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9
2012-07-03 20:37:56
User: j0sh10
Functions: gawk grep kill ps xargs
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Command to kill PID

You can also use gawk:

ps auxww | gawk '/application/' | gawk '/processtobekilled/' | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9

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ps aux | awk '{if ($8 ~ "D") print $0}'
2012-05-25 16:53:57
User: SEJeff
Functions: awk ps
Tags: Linux nfs crimsonfu
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Find processes stuck in dreaded "D" state aka IO Wait

Lots of fun to run on nfs clients when the server or network connection is having issues

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kill -9 -$(ps x -o "%c %r" | awk '/svscan/{print $2}')
2012-05-25 16:39:02
User: SEJeff
Functions: awk kill ps
Tags: Linux kill commandlinefu crimsonfu
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Kill the process *group* containing a process named svscan (djb's daemontools)

Daemontools[1] won't always properly reap it's children. Sometimes when you need to kill the main svscan process, you want to also clean up all of it's children. The way to do that is to send a signal to the entire process group. It is a bit tricky

[1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

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ps -e h -o pid --sort -pcpu | head -10 | vzpid -
2012-05-24 14:16:40
User: mrkmg
Functions: head ps
Tags: openvz
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See OpenVZ Container id's of top 10 running processes by %cpu

This command will list the PID, VEID, and Name of the 10 highest cpu using processes on a openvz host. You must have vzpid installed.

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slow () { [ -n $1 ] && while ps -p $1 >/dev/null ; do kill -STOP $1; sleep 1; kill -CONT $1; sleep 1; done & }
2012-05-16 12:13:30
User: igorfu
Functions: kill ps sleep
Tags: io
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Slow down IO heavy process

Some IO intensive process make the system unresponsive. This function periodically starts/stops a process, which hopefully releases some resources for other activities.

This function is useful when ionice is not available

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ps afx | grep defunct -B 1 | grep -Eo "[0-9]{3,}" | xargs kill -9
2012-04-27 16:16:34
User: pholz
Functions: grep kill ps xargs
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kill defunct processes by killing their parents

defunct processes (zombies) usually have to be killed by killing their parent processes. this command retrieves such zombies and their immediate parents and kills all of the matching processes.

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ps afx|grep [a]pache
2012-04-16 03:50:32
User: caruccio
Functions: grep ps
Tags: ps grep
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Remove grep itself from ps

When you 'ps|grep' for a given process, it turns out that grep itself appears as a valid line since it contains the RE/name you are looking for. To avoid grep from showing itself, simply insert some wildcard into process' name.

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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 19:46:19
User: argv
Functions: grep printf ps read sed
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w/o pgrep/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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_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 -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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