How to find sleeping process

[rveri-admin]

Experts, 

How to find Total process , Sleeping Process & Running process from command line , other than using top.

Thanks,

[Dennis Handly]

You can always parse the output of ps(1) to get process info.

[rveri-admin]

Dennis,

Thanks 

How to parse to get the total sleeping process, any hint..

Thanks,

[RAJD1 · Accepted solution]

Adding state and parsing it you can get total number of Sleeping process, similar to top output.

$ UNIX95=1 ps -e -o pid,ppid,args,state | awk '{if ($NF~"S") {c=c+1}}END{print "Sleeping Process= " c}'

Sleeping Process= 1258

HTH,

Raj D.