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Viewing files and processes as trees on Linux

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Sandra Henry-Stocker
Oct 11, 2019

Linux provides several handy commands for viewing both files and processes in a branching, tree-like format that makes it easy to view how they are related. In this post, we’ll look at the ps, pstree and tree commands along with some options they provide to help focus your view on what you want to see.

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Sandra Henry-Stocker

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