One of the most important tasks in Linux systems administration is process management, which involves several operations such as monitoring, signaling processes, and setting process priorities on the system.
There are numerous Linux tools/utilities designed for monitoring and handling processes, such as top, ps, pgrep, kill, killall, nice, and many others.
In this article, we shall uncover how to find processes using a powerful and resourceful Linux utility called fuser.
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