What is a command to find priority of process in Linux?

Question

How can i view the priority of a specific process ?

Answer 1

The top command lists the priority of running processes under the PR heading. If you have it installed, you can also search for a process and sort by priority in htop.

Answer 2

ps is probably the right way to go. You can then grep and awk your way to the relevant row and column

Answer 3

awk '{print $18}' /proc/4996/stat (gets the prio for process 4996).

Other options:

Use ps -o pri. Specify the process id with -p 4996. Or, use -e to list all processes.

Experiment with this as a starting point if you want more than just the priority:

ps -e -o uid,pid,ppid,pri,ni,cmd