What's Running: ps, top and htop

Every running program is a process with a number, its PID: ps lists the ones in your terminal, ps aux lists every one on the computer, ps aux --sort=-%cpu puts the busiest first, and top and htop show the same list live.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson What's Running: ps, top and htop: Every running program is a process with a number, its PID: ps lists the ones in your terminal, ps aux lists every one on the computer, ps aux --sort=-%cpu puts the busiest first, and top and htop show the same list live.
Category
Bash
Level
Apprentice
Tags
linux, process, process-id, ps, top-and-htop, unix