process | Txt

08 Jun

Find the Process that Listen to a Port

Find the process that are listening to a said port…


lsof -i :80

07 May

Show only your processes in the top list using this command…


top -u `whoami`
OR
top -u binnyva(your username)

19 Jan

Display system calls made and received by a process


strace -c ls >/dev/null

12 Jan

Display a list of files opened by processes


lsof -p NUMBER

26 Dec

Shows a tree system processes


pstree

18 Sep

Displays linux tasks in a hierarchical mode


ps -e -o pid,args --forest

14 Dec

Create a command that will return the pid of the given command string..


#!/bin/sh
ps aux|grep  $1|head -n1|awk '{print$ 2}'

14 Sep

A better way to get the process id of an application. I recommend giving an alias for this command…


ps aux|grep firefox|awk '{print  $2 "\t\t"$ 12}'|head -n1

Replace firefox with the name of the application you are searching for.