Displaying Information about Processes

The result from the ps command could be used (optional) to gain the identification number of the process about that more information required to be shown. This can be complete as follows:

# ps -e | grep process

In the example process denotes the name of the process about that more information requires to be displayed.

Practice

The given example displays how to show information about a process.

# ps -e|grep init

1?        00:00:04 init

In the above example first field represents the process-id(PID) and the second field displays the terminal type (TTY), then the third field displays the total amount of CPU time which has been used through the process because it began (TIME), and the last field display the command which has produce the process (CMD).