Questions tagged [pstree]

command to get a list of process in a tree-like presentation. Questions about its usage should use this tag.

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Find children of the process

is there any way to know, who are children of the specific process ? for example those children which their parent ID is foo ?
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Why doesn't pstree command show init in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I am trying to examine the output from pstree command. But for some reason it always starts from something called as systemd as opposed to it being init. I have checked to see the process ID's of both init and systemd using ps aux command and init…
posixKing
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threads presentation in pstree

I read manual of command tree and confused about threads Child threads of a process are found under the parent process and are shown with the process name in curly braces, e.g. icecast2---13*[{icecast2}] Does it mean that process…
Alice
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pstree shows lots of process

This is a dump of pstree. I am running firefox (one tab) and gnome-terminal (1 tab). I count 4 gnome-terminal processes and 34 firefox processes. Is it normal? Actually every application running seems to be…
giuper
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How can I tell state of program seemingly running

I had Firefox running, then (possibly) as a result of a key combination I don't recall, it quickly vanished from screen and Task Bar/Window List. ps ax | grep firefox returns the below+the unneeded grep firefox line (Both ps and the GUI Task…
user66001
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