pstree is a

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command that shows the running

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as a

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. It is used as a more visual alternative to the ps command. The root of the tree is either

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or the process with the given pid. It can also be installed in other

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systems. In BSD systems, a similar output is created using ps -d, in Linux ps axjf produces similar output.

Examples

pstree pid user@host ~$ pstree 1066 rsyslogd─┬─ └─ pstree username user@host ~# pstree username dbus-daemon─── dbus-launch bash───firefox─┬─6*[] ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ ├─ └─

References

External links

The psmisc package

by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
Gnome Process Tree

The portable version of pstree on GitHub
* * Unix process- and task-management-related software {{Unix-stub

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