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Review process hierarchy using the terminal

by Kyle on February 24th, 2007

It was a little difficult coming up with a title for this post, and “Review process hierarchy using the terminal” was the best I could come up with. I recently learned about a very helpful terminal command known as pstree. Open a terminal and type the following command:

pstree

You will then be greeted with a list of the current system process. Here is a screenshot compliments of Bash Cures Cancer that visually demonstrates pstree’s capabilities.

This is a command I wish I would have known about in my Computer Science classes in college.

Bash Cures Cancer also has a list of 10 little known by extremely useful terminal commands.

10 Linux commands you’ve never used - [Bash Cures Cancer]

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