How to learn parameters with which a process was called

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Created Jun ’20

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I am wondering, how I can see how a process visible in tops was launched. I would like to learn how I could launch it from the command line, so that it would behave exactly like it would if launched by the parent process that launches it under usual circumstances.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’20

The ps command can show you command-line arguments. Try this:

In one Terminal window, run sleep 60.
In other window, run ps as shown below.

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Code Block  % ps -p `pgrep sleep` -o args
ARGS
sleep 60

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