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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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suser, svuser
Saved username; as text if it is available and it fits, otherwise
as a decimal number. (SUSER or SVUSER respectively)
sz
Physical page size of the core image of the process, including
text, data and stack space. (SZ)
tpgid
ID of the foreground process group on the associated terminal
for the process, or -1 if not connected to a terminal. (TPGID)
tt, tty, tname
Associated (controlling) terminal. (TTY for tname; otherwise
TT)
uid
User ID. (UID)
vsz, vsize
Virtual memory size, in kilobytes of the entire process. (VSZ)
wchan
Kernel function in which process is sleeping, or "-" if running,
or "*" if multithreaded process and ps is not displaying
threads. (WCHAN)
ptx
ptx [options] [infiles]
ptx -G [options] [infile [outfile]]
Create a permuted index, including context, from the contents of
the specified input files. If the input files are omitted, or are
-, read
from standard input. The results are written to standard output. In
the second form, with the -G option, ptx behaves like the System V
version rather than the GNU version; you specify only one input
file, and you can also specify an output file. Because they show
words in context, permuted indexes are often used in such places
as bibliographic or medical databases, thesauruses, or web sites to
aid in locating ...
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