niceness

granny · 03-10-2003, 01:03 PM

What command could I use to see the niceness of a command I ran, besides just using top. Here is what I am looking for...

I want a command that I can type command PID and it will show the niceness of the command. Is there such a thing? I know, top works fine, but I was just wondering if there was a command that does this. Or what file(s) does top get its info from?

ranger_nemo · 03-10-2003, 05:07 PM

You can change the columns in ps with the -o option.

If you just want it for one command, you could use something like...

ps -o nice --no-headers -C commandname

or...

ps -o nice --no-headers PID

You could even set-up an alias to create your own command that would do it for you...

alias cn='ps -o nice --no-headers'

Then, all you have to do is type in...

cn -C commandname

or...

cn PID

Put your alias command in your .bash_profile, and it will be run and set the alias every time you login.