Background processes running on ubantu

[Liam Proven]

On 30 January 2012 18:45, Shashank Ghoti <shashank.ghoti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have 5 processes running in the background. What is the command to  see
> only running background processes (in my case 5 processes)? i have tried
> through ps.
> Can anybody help me to know exact command for that?

I bet you don't. Only 5 would be impossibly low for any modern Unix
system. 50 would be very low. 500 would not be massively unusual, but
200-300 is fairly normal.

Try:

ps aux | less

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