add psg-function
[small-misc-bash] / psg-function
1 #!/bin/bash
2 # Copyright (C) 2016 Ian Kelling
3
4 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 # You may obtain a copy of the License at
7
8 # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9
10 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 # limitations under the License.
15
16 psg () {
17 local x y help
18 help="Usage: psg [--help] GREP_ARGS
19 grep ps and output in a nice format"
20 if [[ $1 == --help ]]; then
21 echo "$help"
22 return
23 fi
24 x=$(sudo ps -eF)
25 # final grep is because some commands tend to have a lot of trailing spaces
26 y=$(echo "$x" | grep -P "$@" | grep -o '.*[^ ]')
27 if [[ $y ]]; then
28 echo "$x" | head -n 1
29 echo "$y"
30 fi
31 }