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On Sun Solaris, I can use "ptree" to trace all parent and child processes for a given PID. Is there same command available on Linux? (I can't find ptree on ...
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Equivalent command as ptree in Linux
On Sun Solaris, I can use "ptree" to trace all parent and child processes for a given PID. Is there same command available on Linux? (I can't find ptree on linux)
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There is a pstree command for Linux, but I don't know what package it might be in. I have used it before, though.
You may also want to check the man page for "ps", which appears to have a --forest option that may do what you want.
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In Arch at least, pstree is part of the psmisc package. Other distros may name the package differently.
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And the command it uses is pstree, not ptree. I think the package is found in the rpmforge repository, as least for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.
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