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If I want to check the running processes on my Linux box, what should I do?<br />
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Basically I'm looking for the PID and the command the PID is running - something like you run &quot;ps aux&quot; on Linux.<br />
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Thanks.
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If I want to check the running processes on my Linux box, what should I do?

Basically I'm looking for the PID and the command the PID is running - something like you run "ps aux" on Linux.

Thanks.

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