how to see the running processes on linux terminal

February 13, 2014 by gihandilanka

There are several ways to see the running processes
1.) type “top” in terminal

then you can see the the running processes as below

2.) type “ps aux”

then you can see the running processes as below

3) type “ps aux | less” (you can see the all processes without controlling ttys)

you can see the running processes without controlling ttys as below

4.) type “pstree”

you can see the running processes as a hierarchy as below