process group display?

[Kevin Martin]

On 10/16/12 11:24, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On 10/16/2012 05:21 PM, Jack Craig wrote:
>> Thx! I knew there had to be a solution, ...
> 
> I'm also a big fan of ps ax --forest - it retains the ps fields while
> still giving you an asciigram of the process tree:
> 
> $ ps ax --forest
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>     2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]
>     3 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/0]
>     6 ?        S    5243:09  \_ [migration/0]
> [...]
>   933 ?        Sl     0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
>   953 tty1     Ss+   72:31      \_ /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none
>  1271 ?        Sl     0:01      \_ gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]
>  1372 ?        Ssl    0:12          \_ gnome-session
>  1563 ?        Sl     4:44              \_ /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-
>  1619 ?        Sl     1:19              \_ nm-applet
>  1620 ?        Sl     0:00              \_ zeitgeist-datahub
>  1621 ?        SNl    0:05              \_ /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
>  1622 ?        Sl     0:14              \_ gnome-screensaver
>  1683 ?        SLl    0:04              \_ /usr/libexec/evolution
>  1690 ?        Sl     0:02              \_ abrt-applet
>  1697 ?        Sl     0:01              \_ /usr/libexec/deja-dup/deja-
> 17357 ?        Sl    22:06              \_ /usr/bin/gnome-shell
> [...]
> 
> Regards,
> Bryn.
> 
I don't get a lot of "that's cool" moments in computing these days but that's cool!  Thanks.

Kevin