How to display list of running processes Python with full name and active status?
I tried this command: pgrep -lf python
6 Answers
Try this command:
ps -ef | grep python
ps stands for process status
4 Comments
MisterPi
Thank you, one comment, how to display full path to running file(process)?
Charlie Parker
how is this different from
ps -aux | grep python?
ettanany
@CharlieParker Please look at the
ps man page to see the difference, more specifically at the examples secion here: man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html#EXAMPLES
Winny
ps -ef | grep [p]ythonps -aux will give all process grep python
ps -aux | grep python
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Charlie Parker
how is this different from
ps -ef | grep python?You could also setup a "watch" in a separate window to constantly monitor Python processes as you run a script: watch -n 1 "ps u -C python3". Particularly useful when developing with multiprocessing.
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View 1 shows me all threads of python running, I use this for checking for memory leaks:
View 1
ps -ef | grep [P]ython
# 502 14537 14484 0 5:47PM ttys000 0:00.58 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
# 502 14940 14484 0 5:57PM ttys000 0:00.55 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
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ps -ef | grep python
# 502 14950 14484 0 5:58PM ttys000 0:00.00 grep python
View 3
ps aux | grep python
# jayrizzo 14957 0.0 0.0 34132060 896 s000 S+ 5:58PM 0:00.00 grep python
All 3 variations provide slightly different results.
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Try this command
ps -ef | grep python
ps stands for process status
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If you have the psutil module available, you can iterate over the processes you have permission to read, and select the processes executing the same binary:
import psutil
this_proc = psutil.Process()
for p in psutil.process_iter(['pid', 'exe', 'cmdline']):
if p.info['exe'] == this_proc.exe() and p.info['pid'] != this_proc.pid:
print(p.info['pid'], ' '.join(p.info['cmdline']))
This works even if the process has changed its command line entry while running.
pkill -9 python