Ipcs

This article is about the ipcs command of Unix-like systems. For other uses, see IPCS (disambiguation).

ipcs is a Unix and Linux command^[1] to list System V InterProcess Communication System's API kernel entities to stdout. System V IPC kernel entities are:

• Shared memory segments
• Message queues
• Semaphore arrays

ipcs

Developer(s)	Various open-source and commercial developers
Operating system	Unix, Unix-like, IBM i
Type	Command

Implementations

On Linux, the ipcs command is provided by the util-linux package.

The ipcs command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.^[2]

See also

• List of Unix commands
• ipcrm