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Enter a command. For example: paperkey, zopflipng, enscript.

ps

 
Information about running processes. More information: https://manned.org/ps.
 
  • List all running processes:
     
    ps aux
     
  • List all running processes including the full command string:
     
    ps auxww
     
  • Search for a process that matches a string:
     
    ps aux | grep {{string}}
     
  • List all processes of the current user in extra full format:
     
    ps --user $(id -u) -F
     
  • List all processes of the current user as a tree:
     
    ps --user $(id -u) f
     
  • Get the parent PID of a process:
     
    ps -o ppid= -p {{pid}}
     
  • Sort processes by memory consumption:
     
    ps --sort size

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