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Get The Time When A Command Line Process Started On A Mac

ps -o pid,lstart,command
Output:
PID STARTED                      COMMAND
 1178 Wed Nov 20 15:23:48 2024     -zsh
 1630 Wed Nov 20 15:24:18 2024     tmux
42559 Mon Dec 30 14:16:09 2024     /bin/bash ./build-cli-and-run
42565 Mon Dec 30 14:16:10 2024     ./neopoligengine-aarch64-apple-darwin
46114 Wed Jan  1 10:42:42 2025     nvim
42522 Mon Dec 30 14:15:50 2024     /bin/bash ./sync-neo-template-to-aws
 4531 Wed Nov 20 15:26:00 2024     binder
 4475 Wed Nov 20 15:24:50 2024     /bin/bash ./start-meilisearch.bash
 4477 Wed Nov 20 15:24:50 2024     meilisearch
30595 Mon Dec  2 10:41:17 2024     /bin/bash ./facecam-start
27820 Thu Jan  2 21:28:05 2025     /bin/sh /usr/bin/man ps
27823 Thu Jan  2 21:28:05 2025     /usr/bin/less -s

Notes

  • You can change -o to -eo to see system processes in addition to the user processes
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