How To List Show Display Current Linux System Processes

This post was create in hopes of helping you get the linux commands to display the current system running processes

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If you want to see system wide process (kinda like task manager in windows) execute the following command:

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ps -aux

or

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ps -ef

you will see something like this:

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UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD

root 1 0 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:01 init [3]

root 2 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0]

root 3 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]

root 4 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/0]

root 5 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [migration/1]

root 6 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/1]

root 7 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/1]

root 8 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [migration/2]

root 9 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/2]

root 10 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/2]

root 11 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [migration/3]

root 12 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/3]

root 13 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/3]

root 14 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [events/0]

root 15 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [events/1]

root 16 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [events/2]

root 17 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [events/3]

root 18 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [khelper]

root 19 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [kthread]

root 24 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:01:25 [kblockd/0]

root 25 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:41 [kblockd/1]

root 26 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/2]

root 27 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:41 [kblockd/3]

root 28 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid]

root 120 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [khubd]

root 178 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush]

root 179 19 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:02 [pdflush]

root 180 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd0]

Hope this helps

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