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PX(1) | General Commands Manual | PX(1) |
NAME¶
px
—
list running processes and show process metadata
SYNOPSIS¶
px
px
filter px
PID
DESCRIPTION¶
Thepx
utility lists processes running on the system, to
the standard output. If stdout is a terminal, output will be truncated at
terminal window width.
Without any arguments, px
lists all
processes on the system.
If you specify a filter the output will contain only processes matching that filter.
The filter can be a user name or part of a
command line. For example, ‘px java
’
will list all Java processes, and ‘px
root
’ will list all of root's processes.
Running px
PID will
show you information about a given process:
- The process tree; parents and children
- Start time, run time and CPU usage
- List of other processes started around the same time as this one
- List of users logged in when the process was started
- Where stdin, stdout and stderr is pointing
- Network connections
- IPC connections (sockets, pipes and local network connections) and which processes are at the other end of those
PROCESS NAMING¶
px
tries to be helpful about naming processes, and avoid
printing names of various VMs.
For example, if you do ‘java -jar
foo.jar
’, px
will show this process as
‘foo.jar
’ rather than
‘java
’.
px
parses command lines from:
- Java
- Python
- Node
- Ruby
- Various shells
- Perl
SEE ALSO¶
ptop(1)HOMEPAGE¶
px
lives at http://github.com/walles/px
August 24, 2018 | Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 |