# So, what can you do with a process ID? For the longest time, the only thing I knew how to do with the process ID (PID) for a running process was kill it. It turns out, if you have a PID, you can gather a ton of info about what that process is up to! I'm sure these commands will seem blindingly obvious to someone with more of sysadmin background. This is all coming from the perspective of someone who occasionally hops on to a machine and has a lot of trouble navigating around and exploring w...