Hi Rahul, you may need to look at "man ps" in linux. there are examples given in the "man ps". some are pasted... EXAMPLES To see every process on the system using standard syntax: ps -e ps -ef ps -eF ps -ely To print a process tree: ps -ejH ps axjf To get info about threads: ps -eLf ps axms To get security info: ps -eo euser,ruser,suser,fuser,f,comm,label ps axZ ps -eM To see every process running as root (real & effective ID) in user format: ps -U root -u root u To see every process with a user-defined format: ps -eo pid,tid,class,rtprio,ni,pri,psr,pcpu,stat,wchan:14,comm ps axo stat,euid,ruid,tty,tpgid,sess,pgrp,ppid,pid,pcpu,comm ps -eopid,tt,user,fname,tmout,f,wchan Print only the process IDs of syslogd: ps -C syslogd -o pid= Print only the name of PID 42: ps -p 42 -o comm= On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Rahul Kumar <mailforgroup@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I just want to know the command option for ps...so that i can see the complete arguments for the executable running. Right now, i'm seeing the truncated output. This i need because i would like to rerun the process with the same arguments.

Can any one help me out on this.

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_______________________________________ From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Kumar [mailforgroup@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:45 AM To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: viewing complete command Hi,

I just want to know the command option for ps...so that i can see the complete arguments for the executable running. Right now, i'm seeing the truncated output. This i need because i would like to rerun the process with the same arguments.

Can any one help me out on this.

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