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authorcinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de>2012-11-08 00:06:54 +0100
committercinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de>2012-11-08 00:06:54 +0100
commit01d28b9d89c069afe4a43afe04d31ddb89524b24 (patch)
treeb84b83f427f331903eeaf62f70d256571f520c75 /sys/man/1/ps
parent6f1efd37a23d8ae0a1907cce14749079a3aabb3c (diff)
pstree: manpage, print pid in first column, bio, silly walks
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@@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ flag causes
to print the arguments for the process. Newlines in arguments will be translated to spaces for display.
.PP
.I Pstree
-shows the processes as a tree.
+prints the processes as a tree in a two colum layout where
+the first colum being the process id and second column
+the program name and arguments indented and prefixed with
+line drawing runes to reflect the nesting in the hierarchy.
.SH FILES
.B /proc/*/status
.SH SOURCE