Finding your processes

• To find the job numbers of all the background jobs you are running, type:

          % jobs

  The job numbers will be shown in square brackets ([]), followed by the notation ``Stopped'' (for suspended jobs) or ``Running'' (for jobs that are still executing).
• To find out all the process ID numbers of processes you are running, type:

          % ps -gx

  Here is an example of output from this command:

            PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
          12030 p5 S     0:01 -csh (csh)
          12068 p5 T     1:46 emacs foo
          12788 p5 R     0:00 ps -gx

  The first column is the process ID. The second column tells what terminal is controlling it (in this case, ttyp5). Next comes the current status (S for sleeping, T for stopped, R for running). The next column tells how much time it has spent.

Last updated: 1995/12/04 19:39:34 UT
URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/ps.html