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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users [Tip] ptree for Linux Post 303043037 by stomp on Thursday 16th of January 2020 04:53:47 AM
Old 01-16-2020
I'd like to mention --forest option of ps which I use regularly under linux.

It lacks the here mentioned feature to show only the tree concerning a special pid.

Code:
ps ax --forest

Code:
...
 2406 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit --kded +kcminit_startup
 2411 ?        Ss     0:00 kdeinit5: Running...
 2413 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/klauncher --fd=9
 2420 ?        Sl     0:01  \_ kded5 [kdeinit5]
 2761 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/bin/ksmserver
 2791 ?        Sl     0:09  |   \_ kwin_x11 -session 10dde16a61000157748587300000029330001_1578584288_66599
 2799 ?        Sl     0:02  |   \_ /usr/bin/krunner
 2800 ?        Sl     0:29  |   \_ /usr/bin/plasmashell --shut-up
 2801 ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
 2802 ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/xembedsniproxy
 2888 ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher --launch-immediately
 2910 ?        S      0:00  |   |   \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3
 2889 ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/korgac
 2856 ?        Sl     0:01  \_ /usr/bin/owncloud -session 10dde16a61000157848162200000034850009_1578584288_58686
 3486 ?        Sl     2:15  \_ /usr/local/bin/firefox
 3634 ?        Sl     0:41  |   \_ /opt/firefox/firefox-61.0.1/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 3 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 6100 -prefMapSize 258569 -parentBuildID 20200107212822 -greomni /opt/fire
 6193 ?        Sl     0:18  |   \_ /opt/firefox/firefox-61.0.1/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 20 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7615 -prefMapSize 258569 -parentBuildID 20200107212822 -greomni /opt/fir
 6565 ?        Sl     0:04  |   \_ /opt/firefox/firefox-61.0.1/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 25 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7615 -prefMapSize 258569 -parentBuildID 20200107212822 -greomni /opt/fir
 6687 ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /opt/firefox/firefox-61.0.1/firefox-bin -contentproc -childID 26 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7615 -prefMapSize 258569 -parentBuildID 20200107212822 -greomni /opt/fir
 3968 ?        Sl     0:08  \_ /usr/bin/konsole
 3975 pts/1    Ss     0:00  |   \_ /bin/bash
 3985 pts/1    S+     0:00  |   |   \_ ssh webhost01
 5438 pts/2    Ss     0:00  |   \_ /bin/bash
 5445 pts/2    S+     0:00  |   |   \_ ssh webhost01
 6922 pts/3    Ss     0:00  |   \_ /bin/bash
 6984 pts/3    R+     0:00  |       \_ ps ax --forest
 4508 ?        Sl     0:33  \_ /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
...

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