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.
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The ultimate resource would be the ps man page. You can access this from your terminal as well by typing 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 |
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