pstree Command
Shows a tree system processes
pstree
Shows a tree system processes
pstree
Displays linux tasks in a hierarchical mode
ps -e -o pid,args --forest
Create a command that will return the pid of the given command string..
#!/bin/sh
ps aux|grep 1|head -n1|awk '{print2}'
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.