Can someone please enlighten on what the difference is when passing the 'j' and '-l -y' options to the 'ps' utility.
An other good 'ps' resource is welcome too.
Can someone please enlighten on what the difference is when passing the 'j' and '-l -y' options to the 'ps' utility.
An other good 'ps' resource is welcome too.
The ultimate resource would be the ps man page. You can access this from your terminal as well by typing man ps
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As for the options:
-j jobs format -l long format -y Do not show flags; show rss in place of addr. This option can only be used with -l.
output of each switch (other combinations are possible):
[john@awesome]$ps -j PID PGID SID TTY TIME CMD 30693 30693 30693 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 30879 30879 30693 pts/1 00:00:00 ps [john@awesome]$ps -l F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 S 1089 30693 30691 0 78 3 - 1166 wait pts/1 00:00:00 bash 0 R 1089 30882 30693 0 80 3 - 1052 - pts/1 00:00:00 ps [john@awesome]$ps -ly S UID PID PPID C PRI NI RSS SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD S 1089 30693 30691 0 78 3 1488 1166 wait pts/1 00:00:00 bash R 1089 30890 30693 0 80 3 820 1052 - pts/1 00:00:00 ps