Check How Long a Process Has Been Running in Linux | Linux Today

Check How Long a Process Has Been Running in Linux

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Marco Cherisi
Mar 2, 2022

In this Linux quick tip, we will show you how to find the elapsed time since a process was started.

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Marco Cherisi

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