ps show start time in ISO 8601 format

bgstack15 — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:43:45 GMT

ps -e --no-headers -o lstart,pid,command --sort=start_time | awk '{ cmd="date -d\""$1 FS $2 FS $3 FS $4 FS $5"\" +\047%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S\047"; cmd | getline d; close(cmd); $1=$2=$3=$4=$5=""; printf "%s\n",d$0 }'


2021-08-24T07:42:42     25863 [kworker/0:3-events]
2021-08-24T07:42:42     25927 [kworker/2:3-events]
2021-08-24T07:43:08     27437 [kworker/u9:0-xprtiod]
2021-08-24T07:44:00     30436 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 114 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 10798 -prefMapSize 258189 -parentBuildID 20210504152106 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 5803 true tab
2021-08-24T07:49:28     16224 [kworker/u8:0-kcryptd/254:0]
2021-08-24T07:49:34     16656 sleep 2
2021-08-24T07:49:36     16688 sleep 0.75

You of course can adapt this to whichever additional parameters you need to send to ps, or grep for.

Get exact start time of process

bgstack15 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:16:28 GMT

Get exact start time of process

To find the exact start time of processes, use this command.

ps -eo pid,cmd,lstart

References

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5731234/how-to-get-the-start-time-of-a-long-running-linux-process/5731337#5731337

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ps show start time in ISO 8601 format

Get exact start time of process

Get exact start time of process

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