Report process status
SIMPLE PROCESS SELECTION
| Switch | Description |
| -A | select all processes |
| -N | negate selection |
| -a | select all with a tty except session leaders |
| -d | select all, but omit session leaders |
| -e | select all processes |
| T | select all processes on this terminal |
| a | select all processes on a terminal, including those of other users |
| g | really all, even group leaders (does nothing w/o SunOS settings) |
| r | restrict output to running processes |
| x | select processes without controlling ttys |
| --deselect | negate selection |
PROCESS SELECTION BY LIST
| Switch | Description |
| -C | select by command name |
| -G | select by RGID (supports names) |
| -U | select by RUID (supports names) |
| -g | select by session leader OR by group name |
| -p | select by PID |
| -s | select processes belonging to the sessions given |
| -t | select by tty |
| -u | select by effective user ID (supports names) |
| U | select processes for specified users |
| p | select by process ID |
| t | select by tty |
| --Group | select by real group name or ID |
| --User | select by real user name or ID |
| --group | select by effective group name or ID |
| --pid | select by process ID |
| --sid | select by session ID |
| --tty | select by terminal |
| --user | select by effective user name or ID |
| -123 | implied --sid |
| 123 | implied --pid |
OUTPUT FORMAT CONTROL
| Switch | Description |
| -O | is preloaded "-o" |
| -c | different scheduler info for -l option |
| -f | does full listing |
| -j | jobs format |
| -l | long format |
| -o | user-defined format |
| -y | do not show flags; show rss in place of addr |
| O | is preloaded "o" (overloaded) |
| X | old Linux i386 register format |
| j | job control format |
| l | display long format |
| o | specify user-defined format |
| s | display signal format |
| u | display user-oriented format |
| v | display virtual memory format |
| --format | user-defined format |
OUTPUT MODIFIERS
| Switch | Description |
| -H | show process hierarchy (forest) |
| -m | show all threads |
| -n | set namelist file |
| -w | wide output |
| C | use raw CPU time for %CPU instead of decaying average |
| N | specify namelist file |
| O | sorting order (overloaded) |
| S | include some dead child process data (as a sum with the parent) |
| c | true command name |
| e | show environment after the command |
| f | ASCII-art process hierarchy (forest) |
| h | do not print header lines (repeat header lines in BSD personality) |
| m | all threads |
| n | numeric output for WCHAN and USER |
| w | wide output |
| --cols | set screen width |
| --columns | set screen width |
| --cumulative | include some dead child process data (as a sum with the parent) |
| --forest | ASCII art process tree |
| --html | HTML escaped output |
| --headers | repeat header lines |
| --no-headers | print no header line at all |
| --lines | set screen height |
| --nul | unjustified output with NULs |
| --null | unjustified output with NULs |
| --rows | set screen height |
| --sort | specify sorting order |
| --width | set screen width |
| --zero | unjustified output with NULs |
INFORMATION
| Switch | Description |
| -V | print version |
| L | list all format specifiers |
| V | show version info |
| --help | print help message |
| --info | print debugging info |
| --version | print version |
OBSOLETE
| Switch | Description |
| A | increase the argument space (DecUnix) |
| M | use alternate core (try -n or N instead) |
| W | get swap info from ... not /dev/drum (try -n or N instead) |
| k | use /vmcore as c-dumpfile (try -n or N instead) |