3.1.21 Viewing/killing processes

There are at least two kinds of ps(1) utilities. One that accepts (more or less) combinations of the 'a', 'u', and 'x' flags and another that accepts combinations of 'e', 'f' and 'l' flags. Since is quite difficult to test which one works fine on a given UNIX system, gitfm provides key bindings for both of them. Anyway, if your ps(1) fails to accept the predefined combinations, please take a look in its manual and then modify the ‘.gnuitrc.TERM’ file as needed.

Since the number of possible combinations of flags in the ps command line is quite big and *very* system dependent, there is no real reason to display them all here. We are only interested in giving you a starting point in your search through the ‘.gnuitrc.TERM’ file.

Note also that you can display a list of processes using ps(1) or browse through a list of them (killing as needed) using gitps. As a convention, we have used the same key sequence for a given set of ps(1) flags for both ps(1) and gitps, the only difference being that ps(1) keys end in an uppercase letter. See section The GNUIT process viewer/killer, for more information.

Under Linux it is possible to see a tree of processes using pstree(1).

Here there are the default key bindings for the 'e', 'f' and 'l' ps(1) flags combinations:

ESC P b, ESC P c, ESC P e

Call gitps or ps(1) in order to browse through or display
a list of currently running processes (‘GITPS’, ‘PS’).

... and the default key bindings for the 'a', 'u' and 'x' ps(1) flags combinations:

ESC P a, ESC P l, ESC P u ESC P x, ESC P y

Call gitps or ps(1) in order to browse through or display
a list of currently running processes (‘GITPS’, ‘PS’).

ESC P T

Call pstree(1) in order to display the tree of currently running
processes (‘PSTREE’).

^X k

Call kill(1) in order to kill a user specified process with a
given signal (‘KILL’).

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