Useful Tools
Let's learn about some useful command-line tools in this lesson!
We'll cover the following...
Command-line tools
There are many command-line tools that are useful as well. For example, using the ps
command allows you to see which processes are running; read the man pages for some useful flags to pass to ps
. The tool top
is also quite helpful, as it displays the processes of the system and how much CPU and other resources they are eating up. Humorously, many times when you run it, top
claims it is the top resource hog; perhaps it is a bit of an egomaniac. The command kill
can be used to send arbitrary signals to processes, ...