Finding the disk path of a process

Asked By Joseph T Smith 40 points N/A Posted on - 04/19/2015

I'm using Ubuntu these days and the CPU usage of Ubuntu is quite low. I want to find out the disk path of any process on Ubuntu and delete the files related to unnecessary to boost my PC.

1. How can I find the disk path of a process on Ubuntu?

2. Is there any software to do this?

 

 

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Answered By Dave Crinit 5 points N/A #180642

Finding the disk path of a process

Actually you no need to use any software to find out the disk path of any process on Ubuntu and delete the files related to unnecessary to boost the PC. Instead, you can simply run these commands,

 

For example, If your search is related to process synergy, then the command should be like this,

ps -o command= -p "$(ps -C synergy -o pid=)" | xargs which

 

If you need to know only about where the executable is currently rooted, you can simply use the "which…" command.

Example- which synergy

 

After detecting the necessary processes, you can simply kill them with the command,

killall process-name

Example- killall firefox

 

Best Regards!

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