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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Using the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
  4. Monitoring and troubleshooting NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
  5. Viewing process information in the pseudo-file system
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Viewing process information in the pseudo-file system

Use the following procedures to view or search files from the /proc/ directory.

To view information about the files

  1. Open an SSH session to the server.
  2. Run the command:

    support proc ls [dir=<directory>]

    • Where [dir=<directory>] is an optional parameter to specify the directory that you want to view the files from. For example:

    support proc ls dir=config

To view a file

  1. Open an SSH session to the server.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • To view an entire file, run the command:

      support proc cat file=<file>

      Where <file> is the file name of the file that you want to view.

    • To view the last 10 lines of a file, run the following command:

      support proc tail file=<file>

      Where <file> is the file name of the file that you want to view.

To search a file

  1. Open an SSH session to the server.
  2. Run the following command:

    support proc grep file=<file> pattern=<keyword>

    Where <file> is the file name of the file that you want to search and <keyword> is the naming pattern that you want to search for. For example:

    support proc grep file=spa.cfg pattern=address

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