How to check in terminal if a process is running?

[sayhello_to_the_world]

hello puppy-friends,


good day - new to p. so do bear with me for asking dumb questions.

how to check in terminal whether a process is running?

-eg a process of copying files

btw: perhaps we can see how many percent of the copy is done yet.


ps -important: the process of copying the files was executed not (!!) in terminal but in the dolping (the gui-tool of my - linux)

guess that this does not make any difference - we can see the copying too - in terminal !?
can we!?


love to hear from you

say

[zigbert]

sayhello_to_the_world
you could try

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ps | grep 'cp'

Sigmund

[GustavoYz]

Exactly.
If you want a better panorama of running processes, use top or get htop.