See how long a process has been running on #linux

If you started a long-running process and want to know how long it has been "on the run" so to speak, you can use the -eo switch on ps to specify you want the elapsed time like so:

ps -eo pid,cmd,etime

This will yield something like:

112 [aws/0]                  2-10:27:00
114 [aws/1]                  2-10:27:00
115 [aws/2]                  2-10:27:00
123 [aws/3]                  2-10:27:00
  ...

Which means that process aws has been running for 2 days, 10 hours and 27 minutes.

You can of course pipe the result to grep:

ps -eo pid,cmd,etime | grep aws

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