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author | gad <gad@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-03-31 23:51:12 +0000 |
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committer | gad <gad@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-03-31 23:51:12 +0000 |
commit | 174f84b21b6bad327beafa8ed2de283c66f09258 (patch) | |
tree | 49e16fc971310a775641e93dd314515d1b0eb5a5 /bin/ps/ps.1 | |
parent | 5ef02cd175cbb3fe1ffe24d5beac82d3d60240b2 (diff) | |
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Describe the sorting options in better and more complete detail.
Also improve the description of `-L' a little.
MFC after: 4 days
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ps/ps.1')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ps/ps.1 b/bin/ps/ps.1 index ad0661c..30461e9 100644 --- a/bin/ps/ps.1 +++ b/bin/ps/ps.1 @@ -67,10 +67,9 @@ The .Nm utility -displays a header line followed by lines containing information about your +displays a header line, followed by lines containing information about +all of your processes that have controlling terminals. -This information is sorted by controlling terminal, then by process -.Tn ID . .Pp A different set of processes can be selected for display by using any combination of the @@ -83,6 +82,24 @@ If more than one of these options are given, then will select all processes which are matched by at least one of the given options. .Pp +For the processes which have been selected for display, +.Nm +will usually display one line per process. +The +.Fl H +option may result in multiple output lines (one line per thread) for +some processes. +By default all of these output lines are sorted first by controlling +terminal, then by process +.Tn ID . +The +.Fl m, r, u, +and +.Fl v +options will change the sort order. +If more than one sorting option was given, then the selected processes +will be sorted by the last sorting option which was specified. +.Pp For the processes which have been selected for display, the information to display is selected based on a set of keywords (see the .Fl L @@ -141,7 +158,11 @@ header per page of information. Print information associated with the following keywords: user, pid, ppid, pgid, jobc, state, tt, time and command. .It Fl L -List the set of available keywords. +List the set of keywords available for the +.Fl O +and +.Fl o +options. .It Fl l Display information associated with the following keywords: uid, pid, ppid, cpu, pri, nice, vsz, rss, mwchan, state, tt, time @@ -150,7 +171,8 @@ and command. Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the currently running system. .It Fl m -Sort by memory usage, instead of by process +Sort by memory usage, instead of the combination of controlling +terminal and process .Tn ID . .It Fl N Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default, @@ -177,7 +199,8 @@ the standard header. Display information about processes which match the specified process .Tn ID(s) . .It Fl r -Sort by current cpu usage, instead of by process +Sort by current cpu usage, instead of the combination of controlling +terminal and process .Tn ID . .It Fl S Change the way the process time is calculated by summing all exited |