jhoe123 / pst

TUI process monitor written in Go

pst

This is TUI process monitor written in Go.

Features

• Monitor process's list, info, tree, open files,
• Kill process

Support OS

• Mac
• Linux

Requirements

• ps
• lsof

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/skanehira/pst
$ cd pst
$ go install

Options

You can change the process info to be displayed with environment PS_ARGS.

Default PS_ARGS value is pid,ppid,%cpu,%mem,lstart,user,command.

e.g make alias and use it.

alias pst="env PS_ARGS=%cpu,%mem,lstart pst"

Usage

$ pst -h
Usage of pst:
  -log
        enable output log
  -proc string
        use word to filtering process name when starting

# run tui
$ pst

Default, log file will generate $HOME/pst.log if it's not exist.

Keybindings

common keybindings

key	description
Ctrl + c	stop pst
j	move down
k	move up
h	move left
l	move right
g	move to top
G	move to bottom
Ctrl + f	next page
Ctrl + b	previous page
Tab	focus next panel
Shift + Tab	focus previous panel

input

key	description
Enter	next process

processes panel

key	description
K	kill select process

process tree panel

key	description
K	kill select process
Enter	expand child process