A Unix command that shows the running processes as a tree. It is used as a more visual alternative to the ps command.
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bash: Dump a parent call tree
I'm looking to instrument a recursive Makefile, and I want to see the complete calling tree that got me to where I'm at (which includes all parameters, etc). I don't care about the other processes on the system.
What I'm looking for is essentially…
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get the pid of specified process name from pstree by using shell script
I am using pstree to get a set of process and the result will be like
processA(123)---processB(124)---processC(125)---processTarget(126)---processD(127)
I would like to use the keyword "processTarget" to get the pid, that is 126.
The reason why i…
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Cron jobs run twice (CentOS6.5)
I noticed that logwatch output from 1 of my servers is emailed twice. After giving a deeper look to the thing, I found out that it's not only the logwatch, but all the cron jobs simply run twice.
Yesterday I spend some hours on research, but did…
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Use pstree inside awk command
I want to run pstree on a set of pid which I find using ps
ps -aux | grep ^username | awk '{pstree $2}'
Unfortunately, the output is empty, but if I run the pstree command manually with the same pids I get the desired output. What is wrong with the…
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How to use pipe in perl
My syntax is
my $pstree = `pstree -p $pid|wc`;
but i am getting an error.
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
any thoughts?
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python: recreating system process tree from ps command in a dictionary
I'm new to python and I'm trying to recreating in a python dictionary the processes hierarchy like the unix pstree does.
Unfortunately I cannot use the wonderful psutil library cause I don't have permissions to search into /proc path.
Did somebody…
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C - pstree equivalent
In BASH there is a pstree command which 'draws' a tree of processes. I am wondering what is the similar function in C programming language?
A simple example would be appreciated.
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