[plug] Useful command - pstree

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Thu Apr 19 15:57:41 WST 2001


On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Peter Wright wrote:

>
> I just thought some of you might be interested to know about the pstree
> command (which I think I'd heard about before, but had never actually used).

<snip>

> Of course, pstree turned out to be exactly what I wanted. Anyway, I read
> the man page to find out all the useful parameters and work out my
> "default" parameters (much as 'aux' is my default for ps). I eventually
> found I liked:

try ps auxf
I think you'll like what you see.

It's not quite as pretty as pstree, but (by our own admission) ps aux is wired
into your brain.


Yours Tony.

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