Review process hierarchy using the terminal
It was a little difficult coming up with a title for this post, and “Review process hierarchy using the terminal” was the best I could come up with. I recently learned about a very helpful terminal command known as pstree. Open a terminal and type the following command:
pstree
You will then be greeted with a list of the current system process. Here is a screenshot compliments of Bash Cures Cancer that visually demonstrates pstree’s capabilities.
This is a command I wish I would have known about in my Computer Science classes in college.
Bash Cures Cancer also has a list of 10 little known by extremely useful terminal commands.
10 Linux commands you’ve never used – [Bash Cures Cancer]
pstree lists your processes not the directory