There comes a time where you need to find information about a certain process, often to find out what its ID is to parse to the ‘kill’ command. However, it need not necessarily be for that, of course. Two commands will be explained in this guide: ‘ps’ and ‘top’. Both of these should be in a standard Linux installation.
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