pstree
Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 07 May 2010
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NAME
pstree - print a process tree
SYNOPSIS
edrc/bin/pstree
[
-h
]
pstree
[
-p
|
-r
] [
pid
|
processname
]
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/edrc
DESCRIPTION
print a tree of processes and the dependent sub-processes.
Beside the process-ids, the process command is printed.
If no starting process-id
(pid)
is specified, the process tree is started beginning by
the root process-id, else the tree starts with the
specified
pid.
OPTIONS
- -h
-
usage message.
- -p
-
print a list of the process-ids participating on the selected
process tree.
- -r
-
print a list of the process-ids participating on the selected
process tree in reverse order.
This output can be used to kill processes of a process tree
from leaf-to-root.
- pid
-
process-id of the process from which the process tree
should start.
- processname
-
processname from where to start the process tree.
The processname is the first process-id returned by the
pslist -c "processname"
command. Therefore the
processname
is a regular expression.
ENVIRONMENT
-
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
no error.
- 1
-
error.
- 2
-
operating system not supported. See
osid(3)
if you get this error.
- 4
-
usage printed.
- 5
-
the
pstree
command was aborted (pressing Ctrl+C).
- 11
-
temporary directory could not be claimed in
/tmp/,
check the system if this error occures, it is a
sign of system intrusion.
FILES
-
EXAMPLES
-
SEE ALSO
edrcintro(1),
pid(1),
ps(1),
pscount(3),
pslist(3)
NOTES
-
BUGS
-
AUTHOR
pstree was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
edrc/doc/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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