Ps

The ps command lists processes. The command options determine both which processes are listed and the format of the output. Unlike most commands, some of the options to ps do not use the hyphen ("-"), so some letters have different meanings with and without the hyphen.

Examples: $ ps -fu username           # "full listing" of user's processes. $ ps -fe                    # "full listing" of all processes. $ ps auxf                   # "really full listing" of all processes.

The following script kills all processes running by another user (if you are the superuser) $username=$1 $user_pids=`ps au | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1,2 | grep $username \ | cut -d' ' -f2` for pid in $user_pids do   kill -9 $pid done
 * 1) !/bin/sh

To find a list of offending processes ps auxw | grep [name-of-executable]

Running pkill afterward might also be nice.

PS Tips & Tricks

 * List processes by memory usage (ascending): ps -eo pid,%mem,cmd --sort rsz
 * For a full listing of all processes: ps -ef