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Asked: 2026-05-25T13:47:30+00:00

Quick bash/terminal question – I work a lot on the command line, but have

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Quick bash/terminal question –

I work a lot on the command line, but have never really had a good idea of how to manage running processes with it – I am aware of ‘ps’, but it always gives me an exceedingly long and esoteric list of junk, including like 30 google chrome workers, and I always end up going back to activity monitor to get a clean look at what’s actually going on.

Can anyone offer a bit of advice on how to manage running processes from the command line? Is there a way to get a clean list of what you’ve got running? I often use ‘killall’ on process names that I know as a quick way to get rid of something that’s freezing up – can I get those names to display via terminal rather than the strange long names and numbers that ps displays by default? And can I search for a specific process or quick regex of a process, like ‘*ome’?

If anyone has the answers to these three questions, that would be amazingly helpful to many people, I’m sure : )

Thanks!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes grep is good.
    I don’t know what you want to achieve but do you know the top command ? Il gives you a dynamic view of what’s going on.
    On Linux you have plenty of commands that should help you getting what you want in a script and piping commands is a basic we are taught when studying IT.
    You can also get a look to the man of jobs and I would advise you to read some articles about process management basics. 🙂
    Good Luck.

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