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procs — Display information about the active processes. More information: <https://github.com/dalance/procs/

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Problem

How to use the procs command: Display information about the active processes. More information: <https://github.com/dalance/procs/blob/master/man/procs.1.adoc>.

Solution

procs — Display information about the active processes. More information: <https://github.com/dalance/procs/blob/master/man/procs.1.adoc>.

List all processes showing the PID, user, CPU usage, memory usage, and the command which started them:

procs

List all processes as a tree:

procs --tree

List information about processes, if the commands which started them contain Zsh:

procs {{zsh}}

List information about all processes sorted by CPU time in [a]scending or [d]escending order:

procs {{--sorta|--sortd}} cpu

List information about processes with either a PID, command, or user containing 41 or firefox:

procs --or {{PID|command|user}} {{41}} {{firefox}}

List information about processes with both PID 41 and a command or user containing zsh:

procs --and {{41}} {{zsh}}

Code Snippets

List all processes showing the PID, user, CPU usage, memory usage, and the command which started them

procs

List all processes as a tree

procs --tree

List information about processes, if the commands which started them contain Zsh

procs {{zsh}}

List information about all processes sorted by CPU time in [a]scending or [d]escending order

procs {{--sorta|--sortd}} cpu

List information about processes with either a PID, command, or user containing `41` or `firefox`

procs --or {{PID|command|user}} {{41}} {{firefox}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/procs

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