api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
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dataset:
  id: 16
  slug: process-management-commands
  title: Unix Process & System Management Commands
  description: Essential Unix commands for monitoring and managing processes and system resources.
  summary: "Unix process and system-management commands with a description, example and category: ps, top, htop, kill, nice, df, du, free, uname and lscpu."
  use_when[2]: "You are inspecting running processes, resource use or system information.",You need the command to stop or reprioritize a process.
  caveats[2]: "Output format and flags differ between Linux, BSD and macOS.",kill -9 gives a process no chance to clean up; try SIGTERM first.
  related[4]: process-management,file-operations,unix-networking-commands,monitoring-logging-tools
  category: Unix Commands
  category_slug: unix-commands
  tags: "unix,linux,commands,process,system,admin"
  view_count: 0
  created_at: 1777673262
  updated_at: 1777673262
  entry_count: 10
  fields[4]{section,field,type,example}:
    commands,command,string,ps
    commands,description,string,Display information about running processes
    commands,example,string,ps aux
    commands,category,string,Process Monitoring
data:
  commands[10]{command,description,example,category}:
    ps,Display information about running processes,ps aux,Process Monitoring
    top,Display real-time system summary and process list,top -o %MEM,Process Monitoring
    htop,Interactive process viewer (enhanced top),htop,Process Monitoring
    kill,Send a signal to a process,kill -9 1234,Process Control
    nice,Run a program with modified scheduling priority,nice -n 10 ./script.sh,Process Control
    df,Report filesystem disk space usage,df -h,System Monitoring
    du,Estimate file and directory space usage,du -sh /home,System Monitoring
    free,Display amount of free and used memory,free -h,System Monitoring
    uname,Print system information,uname -a,System Information
    lscpu,Display CPU architecture information,lscpu,System Information