Displays information about a selection of the active processes.
ps [options]
Please check linux.die.net - ps
The -ef
options we used above stand for:
$ ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/init splash
root 2 0 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [rcu_gp]
root 4 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [rcu_par_gp]
root 5 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [netns]
root 6 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0-rcu_gp]
root 7 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0H-events_highpri
root 8 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u4:0-ext4-rsv-conve
root 9 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [mm_percpu_wq]
root 10 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [rcu_tasks_rude_kthread]
root 11 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [rcu_tasks_trace_kthread]
root 12 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 13 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [rcu_sched]
root 14 2 0 17:05 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0]
[...]
e
is replaced by C
so the command name can be searched instead of all processes.
$ ps -fC gedit
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
crypt0rr 2228 934 2 17:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gedit --gapplication-service