PTREE(1) User Commands PTREE(1)

ptree - print process trees 

/usr/bin/ptree [-a] [-c] [-s svc] [-z zone] [pid | user]...

The ptree utility prints the process trees containing the specified pids or users, with child processes indented from their respective parent processes. An argument of all digits is taken to be a process-ID, otherwise it is assumed to be a user login name. The default is all processes.

The following options are supported:

-a

All. Print all processes, including children of process 0.

-c

Contracts. Print process contract memberships and their associated SMF FMRIs, in addition to parent-child relationships. See process(4). This option implies the -a option.

-s svc

Print only processes with an SMF service FMRI matching the argument. The FMRI may be in truncated form (such as 'console-login'). This includes child processes even if they are not members of the service contract. See process(4).

-z zone

Zones. Print only processes in the specified zone. Each zone ID can be specified as either a zone name or a numerical zone ID.

This option is only useful when executed in the global zone.

The following operands are supported:

pid

Process-id or a list of process-ids. ptree also accepts /proc/nnn as a process-id, so the shell expansion /proc/* can be used to specify all processes in the system.

user

Username or list of usernames. Processes whose effective user IDs match those given are displayed.

Example 1 Using ptree

The following example prints the process tree (including children of process 0) for processes which match the command name ssh:


$ ptree -a `pgrep ssh`
        1     /sbin/init
          100909 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
            569150 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
              569157 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
                569159 -ksh
                  569171 bash
                    569173 /bin/ksh
                      569193 bash

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful operation.

non-zero

An error has occurred.

/proc/*
process files

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability See below.

The human readable output is Unstable. The options are Evolving.

gcore(1), ldd(1), pargs(1), pgrep(1), pkill(1), plimit(1), pmap(1), preap(1), proc(1), ps(1), ppgsz(1), pwd(1), rlogin(1), time(1), truss(1), wait(1), fcntl(2), fstat(2), setuid(2), dlopen(3C), signal.h(3HEAD), core(4), proc(4), process(4), attributes(5), zones(5)
September 3, 2019