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I’d like to view information for processes running in OS X. Running ps in the terminal just lists the open Terminal windows. How can I see all processes that are running?
Say I’m running a web browser, terminal and text editor. I’d like to see information for the text editor and web browser.
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Launch Terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities). When Terminal is running, type top and hit Return. This will pull up a list of all your currently running processes. As in the Activity Monitor, this list shows your processes in decreasing order of how much of your resources they're consuming.
You can list running processes using the ps command (ps means process status). The ps command displays your currently running processes in real-time. This will display the process for the current shell with four columns: PID returns the unique process ID.
See general information about all processes: Click CPU in the Activity Monitor window (or use the Touch Bar). Information about the number of open processes and threads appears at the bottom of the window. Search for a process: Enter the name of a process or app in the search field.
To list currently running processes, use the ps , top , htop , and atop Linux commands. You can also combine the ps command with the pgrep command to identify individual processes.
Running ps -e does the trick. Found the answer here.
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You can just use top It will display everything running on your OSX
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