Blog Archive for July 11, 2018

jps - ps just for Java

July 11, 2018

I came across a command today that I didn't know existed. It's part of the JVM and it lists just the java processes running on a given machine:

$ jps
2946 org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.4.0.v20161219-1356.jar
3144 GradleDaemon 
3083 GradleDaemon
24092 Jps

If can also list the command line arguments that were supplied:

$ …

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