Processes
Submitted by Des on Tue, 10/01/2013 - 22:04
To see a list of the processes running on your machine use the ps command. Pipe it into more
ps -ef | more
To find all the processes running under user des
ps -ef | grep des
Top will provide a real time view of processes running with some summary infomation.
top
If you find a process you would like to terminate, say PID 2056 you can use the kill command.
kill 2056
If this does not terminate the process you can force a kill with the -9 option
kill -9 2056
To find out what PID the terminal widow you are using is type in the terminal window.
echo $$
For example open a terminal and type sleep 600 and then open another terminal and find this process using grep
sleep 600
ps -ef | grep sleep