Reports the process
status.
| -a |
List information about all processes most
frequently requested: all those except process group leaders and processes not associated with a
terminal. |
| -A |
List information for all processes. Identical to
-e, below. |
| -c |
Print information in a format that reflects scheduler properties as described in
priocntl.
The -c option affects the output of the -f and -l options, as described below. |
| -d |
List information about all processes except
session leaders. |
| -e |
List information about every process now running. |
| -f |
Generate a full listing. |
| -j |
Print session ID and process group ID. |
| -l |
Generate a long listing. |
| -L |
Print information about each light weight process
(lwp) in each selected process. |
| -P |
Print the number of the processor to which the
process or lwp is bound, if any, under an additional column header, PSR. |
| -y |
Under a long listing (-l), omit the obsolete F and
ADDR columns and include an RSS column to report the resident set size of the process. Under the -y
option, both RSS and SZ will be reported in units of kilobytes instead of pages. |
| -g grplist |
List only process data whose group leader's ID
number(s) appears in grplist. (A group leader is a process whose process ID number is identical to
its process group ID number.) |
| -n namelist |
Specify the name of an alternative system namelist file in place of the default. This option is accepted for compatibility, but is ignored. |
| -o format |
Print information according to the format
specification given in format. This is fully described in DISPLAY FORMATS. Multiple -o options can be
specified; the format specification will be interpreted as the space-character-separated concatenation of all the format option-arguments. |
| -p proclist |
List only process data whose process ID numbers
are given in proclist. |
| -s sidlist |
List information on all session leaders whose IDs appear in sidlist. |
| -t term |
List only process data associated with term.
Terminal identifiers are specified as a device file name, and an identifier. For example, term/a, or
pts/0. |
| -u uidlist |
List only process data whose effective user ID number or login name is given in uidlist. In the listing, the numerical user ID will be printed
unless you give the -f option, which prints the login name. |
| -U uidlist |
List information for processes whose real user ID numbers or login names are given in
uidlist. The uidlist must be a single argument in the form of a blank- or comma-separated list. |
| -G gidlist |
List information for processes whose real group ID numbers are given in gidlist. The gidlist must be
a single argument in the form of a blank- or comma-separated list. |
Typing ps alone would list the current running
processes. Below is an example of the output that would be generated
by the ps command.
Display full information about each of the processes currently
running.
