ps question

[remo2]

When you give the command ps aux, so what does that tell you?
How does the command ps-el differs from the previous one?
When you connect to server, and type the command ps aux, what happens?

[Kirboosy]

Welcome to the forums!

aux -- To see every process on the system using BSD syntax:


ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

ef -- To see every process on the system using standard syntax:


ps -ef
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD

Hope that helps!
~Caboose
PS if you would like more information try using the man pages.

man ps
Pressing 'Q' will close the man pages for you when you are done.

[Lars Noodén]

Two others that are useful would be pgrep and top.



pgrep -lf firefox