ps : It’s not just for letters home!

A useful Unix/Linux/OS X command line tool: ps

ps will allow you to check on processes you have running. It’s useful. Often when installing something or running a task like rake or make things go on like and uncomfortable silence with a date, on and on with no feedback! You start to wonder if anything is going on at all.

The most useful state of ps is like this ps --user=your_username_here

This will show all processes you have going, and that’s good because you’re already in multiple terminal windows with multiple ssh sessions going.

Welcome to really doing things with the command line!