What Do I Type In To Find Out What Programs Are Runnin

[L33tLinuxN00b]

Help Would Be Nice I Know There I A Command I Just Dunno What...

[Krendoshazin]

from a console, type top, this will list all processes

[L33tLinuxN00b]

thanx kewl pic btw

[Fallen Angel]

You could also use ps command with ef arguments like:

ps -ef

This also gives you a list of processes with PID and PPID but top gives you how many memory and cpu they are taking.

[Krendoshazin]

thanx kewl pic btw

no problem and thanks

[Samoth]

I use "ps -ax"

[gimp335]

Me too. I use ps ax or ps aux if I wanna see who's doing what.

[sdousley]

also if u know the app u wanna check for:

ps aux | grep -i <appname>

will work eg to check for firefox:

ps aux | grep -i firefox

the -i in grep says not case sensitive

[dylunio]

Just a note to add, the

top

command will show the processes in real time, this way you can see what has an effect on the CPU usage of a program etc. The problem with top is that it doesn't give a PID number for the program which is usful if you want to kill a program etc.

The

ps [options]

command will list the processes running at the time you type it, so it will not update once programs have been killed or other information about them changes.

dylunio

[Krendoshazin]

The problem with top is that it doesn't give a PID number for the program which is usful if you want to kill a program etc.

i don't know what version you're using, but top gives the PID number aswell as other information no problem



also top is quite usefull to control the processes from, not just list them, it's command line allows you to press k and then enter the PID number to kill the process