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Get the process PID consuming the most CPU
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cpu-hog.sh
# get the list of PIDs and cpu use, sort numerically using the second column or key, take the last one, and extract the second column
ps —no-headers -eo pid,%cpu | sort -k2 -n | tail -1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2
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