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Controlling processes

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Controlling processes

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- [Instructor] On a Linux system, just like on a Windows system, commands and programs that we and the system run are controlled as processes. We can view process information with the ps command. This lists the processes running in my current shell, that is, the programs that I've run within this command line shell. There's not a lot here from me right now, because I'm not doing very much, though we can see the ps process here as it ran. We can see everything running in the Linux environment in tree form with the command ps dash ej capital H. There aren't a lot of processes running on this system, and you'd find quite a few more running on a full Linux machine. The utility VM and the distros we install on them are paired down to only the essentials, rather than running all of what we would find on a full system. If we wanted to end a process, for example, if we were running a program that got stuck, or is just taking…

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