On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Sonawane, Rahul (Rahul) wrote: > I have a query about the ps command. Sometimes process ABC is shown as > root 9052 1 0 16:31 ? 00:00:00 /home/rahul/bin/ABC > and sometimes it is shown as > root 9052 1 0 16:31 ? 00:00:00 [ABC] > I would like to know what does the square bracket indicate. man ps: Programs swapped out to disk will be shown without command line arguments, and unless the c option is given, in brackets. -- JiKos. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/