Tip #822 Hierarchic list of processes
You probably use the ps command a lot, but sometimes there is too much info, and somewhat disordered. It can be easily ordered with the forest option, as the following example shows: Read more »- TAGS:
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Tip #528 Top ten running processes
Display the top ten running processes - sorted by memory usageps aux | sort -nk +4 | tail
ps returns all running processes which are then sorted by the 4th field in numerical order and the top 10 are sent to STDOUT. Read more »
Tip #262 Kill matching processes without unnecessary greps and extra sh p
ps -eo pid,args | awk '/sleep/ && !/awk/{ system("kill -9 "$1)}' Read more »Tip #183 Always running
This checks if a daemon is running, if not it starts the daemon. Great for daemons that need to always be running. Can be used with cronps -C someprogram || { someprogram & }
// sil at infiltrated dot net Read more »
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Tip #22 Grepping for processes
Grepping for a process will return the grep command, this can be avoided by adding '| grep -v grep' to a command or easier in some cases altering the regular expression by adding brackets around a character.Read more »
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