[nycbug-talk] process tree viewing

[alex at pilosoft.com]

man pstree

might be a linuxism.

-alex

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Isaac Levy wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I was just wondering- does anyone know of any good utilities to 
> visualize a process tree, (beyond using grep and ps?)
> 
> I'm especially looking for a way to quickly visualize hierarchal 
> relationships of processes- like tab indentation or somesuch.
> 
> --
> Context:
> 
> With OSX, the 'Activity Monitor.app' has a sweet GUI feature for 
> showing all processes, hierarchically-
> 
> I'm basically looking for an equivalent which runs from a shell, cross 
> platform, i.e.:
> 
> --
> PID-Name
> 
> 0-kernel
> 	\_ 1-init
> 		\_ 1154-login
> 			\_ 1155-bash
> 		\_ 1156-login
> 			\_ 1157-bash
> 		\_ 1158-login
> 			\_ 1159-bash
> --
> 
> Kindof a clumsy example, but it's the kind of output I'm trying to get.
> 
> If there's nothing for this, I'm pondering writing something here... 
> (but somebody had to have done this before me?  It seems so darned 
> basic?)
> 
> Any ideas or urls much appreciated!
> 
> Rocket-
> .ike
> 
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