The pstree command displays the running processes on a system in a tree format. Which also shows the hierarchical relationship between processes, with each process represented as a node in the tree.
- About pstree: To display a tree of processes
- Comes From: psmisc-22.6
- Configuration Files:
- Path: /usr/bin/pstree
Examples:
1. To display the process tree
| $ pstree 2210 |
2. To show the command line arguments
| $ pstree -a |
3. To Use ASCII characters to draw the tree
| $ pstree -A |
4. To Disable compaction of identical subtrees
| $ pstree -c |
5. To Use VT100 line drawing characters
| $ pstree -G |
6. To Highlight the current process and its ancestors
| $ pstree -h |
7. To highlight the specified process instead
| $ pstree -H |
8. To Display long lines
| $ pstree -l |
9. To Sort processes with the same ancestor by PID instead of by name
| $ pstree -n |
10. To show PIDs
| $ pstree -p |
11. To show the uid transactions
| $ pstree -u |
12. To Use UTF-8 (Unicode) line drawing characters
| $ pstree -U |
13. To display the version
| $ pstree -V |
14. To show the security context
| $ pstree -Z |
Related Commands: ps, top
