PSTREE(1)

NAME
pstree - display a process heirarchy

SYNOPSIS
pstree [-aclnpu] [pid | user]

DESCRIPTION
The pstree utility shows a heirarchy of active processes. If no user or pid is given, it shows all the processes descended from init(8), otherwise it shows the process tree(s) for the given user or pid.

The options are as follows:

-a  Show the command line for each process.

-c  Don't collapse idential subtrees.

-l  Don't truncate long lines.

-n  Don't sort the process list.

-p  Show process ids.

-u  Show the process owner of each subtree.

RETURN VALUES
The pstree utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
ps(1).

AUTHOR
David Parsons (orc@pell.chi.il.us)