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Show a 4-way scrollable process tree with full details.

Terminal - Show a 4-way scrollable process tree with full details.
ps awwfux | less -S
2009-07-04 09:39:28
User: ToyKeeper
Functions: less ps
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Show a 4-way scrollable process tree with full details.

If you want a visual representation of the parent/child relationships between processes, this is one easy way to do it. It's useful in debugging collections of shell scripts, because it provides something like a call traceback.

When a shell script breaks, just remember "awwfux".

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Nice - +1 from me :-)

Comment by zwergnase 60 weeks and 3 days ago

I like using htop (package name: htop) for this. It is interactive like top, has colors, and you can toggle the process tree with F5.

Comment by bwoodacre 60 weeks and 2 days ago

Thanks for the tip about htop. It is indeed quite nice. :)

Unfortunately, htop isn't installed by default on any distro that I know of, and isn't available at all in most of the distros I have to deal with for work. But it will be handy on some of my Debian boxes.

Comment by ToyKeeper 59 weeks and 5 days ago
pstree -Uclanpu | less -S
Comment by dennisw 51 weeks and 6 days ago

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