Capture commands that launched processes

Jun 29, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: llee

If you know the name of a running command line process, but don't know the precise command line with which it was invoked, you can run a command such as this one to return the complete command:

ps -axwwo command | grep lame | grep -v grep > ~/Desktop/lame_command.txt
This example would save a file to your desktop containing the commands that initiated running processes which included the term lame, for example.

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