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Getting ESP and EIP addresses from running processes

'ps' let you specify the format that you want to see on the output. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
  PID      EIP      ESP USER     COMMAND
    1 00659422 bfd959bc root     /sbin/init
```
3

ps ax --format=pid,eip,esp,user,command

cicatriz · 2010-09-02 12:40:41 0
count how many cat processes are running

'ps ax' provides the fill list of running processes. 'grep -c [c]at' will find all processes that match 'cat' without matching itself.... Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1
```
3

ps ax | grep -c [c]at

utoxin · 2010-09-23 20:18:29 0
To find the uptime of each process-id of particular service or process
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

ps -o etime `pidof firefox` |grep -v ELAPSED | sed 's/\s*//g' | sed "s/$.*$-$.*$:$.*$:$.*$/\1d \2h/; s/$.*$:$.*$:$.*$/\1h \2m/;s/$.*$:$.*$/\1m \2s/"

jsymonkj · 2010-11-28 03:27:24 2
Figure out what shell you're running

short, sweet, and works after sudoing a new shell. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 9155 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
```
3

ps -p $$

psykotron · 2011-02-05 16:22:17 0
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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ps h --ppid $(cat /var/run/apache2.pid) | awk '{print"-p " $1}' | xargs sudo strace

colinmollenhour · 2012-03-21 01:59:41 0

Find processes utilizing high memory in human readable format

Finding high memory usage report in human readable format. Show Sample Output

ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size |awk '{hr[1024**2]="GB";hr[1024]="MB";for (x=1024**3; x>=1024; x/=1024){if ($1>=x){printf ("%-6.2f %s ", $1/x, hr[x]);break}}}{printf ("%-6s %-10s ", $2, $3)}{for (x=4;x<=NF;x++){printf ("%s ",$x)} print ("\n")}'

rockon · 2012-11-27 04:29:08 7

Docker.io Stop and Remove all processes

Will stop all running containers, then remove all containers **This isn't for selectively handling containers, it removes everything**
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

docker stop $(docker ps -a -q); docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)

das_shark · 2015-04-14 13:34:15 0
Show the command line for a PID with ps

Show the command line for a PID with ps
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

ps h -o %a 21679

BeniBela · 2015-09-27 11:00:07 2
easily strace all your apache processes

Will open strace on all apache process, on systems using sbin/apache (debian) or sbin/httpd (redhat), and will follow threads newly created.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

ps auxw | grep -E 'sbin/(apache|httpd)' | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace -F

gormux · 2016-08-04 10:59:58 0

Sort processes by CPU Usage

Short list about top 10 processes, sorted by CPU usage Show Sample Output

ps aux | sort -rk 3,3 | head -n 10

x3mboy · 2018-10-29 20:00:36 1

Sort processes by CPU Usage
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3

ps auxk -%cpu | head -n10

rolanda · 2019-06-29 19:17:14 0

Top 10 Memory Processes

It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage Show Sample Output

ps aux | sort -rk 4,4 | head -n 10

x3mboy · 2019-09-26 16:37:33 1

Find out current working directory of a process
This is sample output - yours may be different.
2

echo COMMAND | xargs -ixxx ps -C xxx -o pid= | xargs -ixxx ls -l /proc/xxx/cwd

ento · 2009-02-25 05:49:03 1

Viewing Top Processes according to cpu, mem, swap size, etc.

I've wanted this for a long time, finally just sat down and came up with it. This shows you the sorted output of ps in a pretty format perfect for cron or startup scripts. You can sort by changing the k -vsz to k -pmem for example to sort by memory instead. If you want a function, here's one from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html aa_top_ps(){ local T N=${1:-10};T=${2:-vsz}; ps wwo pid,user,group,vsize:8,size:8,sz:6,rss:6,pmem:7,pcpu:7,time:7,wchan,sched=,stat,flags,comm,args k -${T} -A|sed -u "/^ *PID/d;${N}q"; } Show Sample Output

command ps wwo pid,user,group,vsize:8,size:8,sz:6,rss:6,pmem:7,pcpu:7,time:7,wchan,sched=,stat,flags,comm,args k -vsz -A|sed -u '/^ *PID/d;10q'

AskApache · 2010-05-18 18:41:38 1

Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

Shows a list of users that currently running processes are executing as. YMMV regarding ps and it's many variants. For example, you might need: ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
USER
_coreaudiod
_locationd
_lp     
_mdnsresponder
_spotlight
_usbmuxd
_windowserver
_www    
daemon  
dfaulkner    
root    
```
2

ps -eo user | sort -u

dfaulkner · 2010-07-07 12:28:44 0
The Hidden PS

While going through the source code for the well known ps command, I read about some interesting things.. Namely, that there are a bunch of different fields that ps can try and enumerate for you. These are fields I was not able to find in the man pages, documentation, only in the source. Here is a longer function that goes through each of the formats recognized by the ps on your machine, executes it, and then prompts you whether you would like to add it or not. Adding it simply adds it to an array that is then printed when you ctrl-c or at the end of the function run. This lets you save your favorite ones and then see the command to put in your .bash_profile like mine at : http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html Note that I had to do the exec method below in order to pause with read. t () { local r l a P f=/tmp/ps c='command ps wwo pid:6,user:8,vsize:8,comm:20' IFS=' '; trap 'exec 66 exec 66 $f && command ps L | tr -s ' ' >&$f; while read -u66 l >&/dev/null; do a=${l/% */}; $c,$a k -${a//%/} -A; yn "Add $a" && P[$SECONDS]=$a; done } Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
   PID USER     COMMAND    TPGID
     1 root     init          -1
  1661 avahi    avahi-daem    -1
  1662 avahi    avahi-daem    -1
  2037 root     screen      2037
  3804 postfix  pickup        -1
  3906 nobody   httpd         -1
  3907 nobody   httpd         -1
  3910 nobody   httpd         -1
  5395 root     bash       12055
  5638 nobody   httpd         -1
```
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for p in `ps L|cut -d' ' -f1`;do echo -e "`tput clear;read -p$p -n1 p`";ps wwo pid:6,user:8,comm:10,$p kpid -A;done

AskApache · 2010-10-12 06:42:10 1
Top ten memory hogs

Inspired by #7065
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2

ps -eorss,args | sort -nr | pr -TW$COLUMNS | head

cogsmos · 2010-11-24 04:17:54 0
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. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
      4 root     25280  0.0  0.0   9084   480 ?        Ss   Jul18   0:00 sshd: guest [priv]
      3 root      2553  0.0  0.0   2804   144 ?        S<   Jul16   0:00 udevd --daemon
      3 aikikode 28332  0.0  0.1   6640  3904 pts/7    Ss   10:48   0:00 [bash]
      3 1001     25411  0.0  0.0   6648   512 pts/0    Ss   Jul18   0:00 -bash
```
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ps aux | sort --key=11 | uniq -c -d --skip-fields=10 | sort -nr --key=1,1

aikikode · 2011-07-19 07:11:29 0
Sort output by column

(separator = $IFS)
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ps aux | sort -nk 6

totti · 2011-08-16 11:04:45 0
"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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2

ps aux | awk '$11!~/\[*\]/ {print $6/1024" Mb --> "$11,$12,$13,$14}' | sort -g

dererk · 2012-03-23 20:59:33 1
Chrome sucks

How much memory is chrome sucking? Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1111
```
2

ps -e -m -o user,pid,args,%mem,rss | grep Chrome | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if / (\d+)$/' | ( x=0;while read line; do (( x += $line )); done; echo $((x/1024)) );

unixmonkey39631 · 2013-05-07 22:50:44 3
Automatically tunnel all ports of running docker instances in boot2docker

It requires https://jqplay.org/, that comes with brew: brew install jq Show Sample Output
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```
none :)
```
2

docker ps -q | xargs -n 1 docker inspect | jq '.[0].NetworkSettings.Ports +{} | map(select(. != null)[0].HostPort) | map("-L $.):localhost:\(.)") ' | sed -n 's/.*"\(.*$".*/\1/p' |xargs boot2docker ssh -N

keymon · 2014-07-27 23:30:31 0
List PHP-FPM pools by total CPU usage

Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
981.8  abc_live
520.9  def_live
0.1    abc_staging
0      default
0      def_staging
```
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ps axo pcpu,args | awk '/[p]hp.*pool/ { sums[$4] += $1 } END { for (pool in sums) { print sums[pool], pool } }' | sort -rn | column -t

phunehehe · 2014-12-11 05:31:04 2
Top 10 Memory Consuming Processes
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ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10

ajoshi83 · 2015-06-19 10:16:09 2
monitor what processes are waiting for IO interrupts
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while true; do date; ps auxf | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done

tictacbum · 2015-09-19 07:23:32 1
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List Threads by Pid along with Thread Start Time

This command will list all threads started by a particular pid along with the start time of each thread. This is very valuable when diagnosing thread leaks.

leave a stale ssh session

When your ssh session hanged (probably due to some network issues) you can "kill" it by hitting those 3 keys instead of closing the entire terminal.

View Processeses like a fu, fu

Shows a less detailed output, made only of the process tree and their pids.

pngcrush all .png files in the directory

Nothing too magical here, just uses pngcrush to losslessly compress all your pngs!

Remove color codes (special characters) with sed

Works great on Mac OSX.

random git-commit message

Do a git commit using a random message.

Extract the contents of an RPM package to your current directory without installing them.

This assumes you have the 'rpm', 'rpm2cpio' and 'cpio' packages installed. This will extract the contents of the RPM package to your current directory. This is useful for working with the files that the package provides without installing the package on your system. Might be useful to create a temporary directory to hold the packages before running the extraction: $ mkdir /tmp/new-package/; cd /tmp/new-package

Continue a current job in the background

Continue a current job in the background and detach it from current terminal

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