Linux command: PS (Process Status)

If we pass arguments with a (-) dash then we will get the output in standard syntax. In contrast, if we pass arguments without any (-) dash then we will get output in BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) syntax.

To view all running processes : ps -e or ps -A
To view full formated list of all running processes: ps -efL

$ ps -efL | more   # more for viewing from the beginning-------------------------------------------------------------------UID          PID    PPID     LWP  C NLWP STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root           1       0       1  1    1 03:44 ?        00:00:20 /sbin/init
root           2       0       2  0    1 03:44 ?        00:00:00 [kthreadd]
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We can use grep along with ps command to search for a specific process;
Let’s say we want to see our “httpd” server is running or not. We can do that in the following way:

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