Terminal Process Watch

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#1

Is there any way to run a command in the terminal to have a live list of the commands that are running behind the screen?

Though I guess it’s gonna be so messy; then I guess I’ll need something to see the live commands behind a specific program’s screen. (for example one of the things I want to see is the command that is behind “run” under a very specific configuration in Quanta, or the commands behind a Thunderbird’s extension).

Is it too silly to want that? :rolleyes:

#2

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For a lot of system call information see ‘strace’ but yes, it’s very
ugly until you get decent at it.

If nothing else try running the app from the command line so any
stdout/stderr info goes to the command line. This will often show
commands you want to see.

Good luck.

rezakhs wrote:
| Is there any way to run a command in the terminal to have a live list of
| the commands that are running behind the screen?
|
| Though I guess it’s gonna be so messy; then I guess I’ll need something
| to see the live commands behind a specific program’s screen. (for
| example one of the things I want to see is the command that is behind
| “run” under a very specific configuration in Quanta, or the commands
| behind a Thunderbird’s extension).
|
|
| Is it too silly to want that? :rolleyes:
|
|
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#3

Run ‘top’ in a console to see every process is going on your system. You can watch live what’s behind the scene: pid cpu usage memory and so on

#4

Thanks both of you! :slight_smile:

#5

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:06:03 GMT
rezakhs <rezakhs@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>Thanks both of you! :slight_smile:
>

Also try:

ps aux

and see

man ps

for more options . . .

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