NAME

       px — list running processes and show process metadata

SYNOPSIS

       px                                               [--debug]
       px                                            [--debug]                                            filter
       px [--debug] PID

DESCRIPTION

       The  px  utility lists processes running on the system, to the standard output.  If stdout is a terminal,
       output will be truncated at terminal window width.

       Without any arguments, px lists all processes on the system.

       If you specify a filter the output will contain only processes matching that filter.

       The filter can be a user name or part of a command line. For  example,  ‘px  java’  will  list  all  Java
       processes, and ‘px root’ will list all of root's processes.

       Running px PID will show you information about a given process:

       •   The process tree; parents and children

       •   Start time, run time and CPU usage

       •   List of other processes started around the same time as this one

       •   List of users logged in when the process was started

       •   Where stdin, stdout and stderr is pointing

       •   Network connections

       •   IPC  connections  (sockets, pipes and local network connections) and which processes are at the other
           end of those

PROCESS NAMING

       px tries to be helpful about naming processes, and avoid printing names of various VMs.

       For example, if you do ‘java -jar foo.jar’, px will show this process as ‘foo.jar’ rather than ‘java’.

       px parses command lines from:

       •   Java

       •   Python

       •   Node

       •   Ruby

       •   Various shells

       •   Perl

SEE ALSO

       ptop(1), pxtree(1)

HOMEPAGE

       px lives at http://github.com/walles/px

Debian                                           August 24, 2018                                           PX(1)