#!/bin/sh # The MIT License (MIT) # # Copyright © 2020-2025 pacman64 # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # processes [options...] # # Show all current processes as a table of tab-separated values (TSV), whose # first line has the column names. # # All data come from running the `ps` command: when not given any options, # the default is to run `ps aux --sort=pid`. # # Besides the usual `ps`-specific options, this script offers easier-to-use # options # # --c reverse-sort entries by latest sampled CPU use # --cpu reverse-sort entries by latest sampled CPU use # # --h show this help message # --help show this help message # # --m reverse-sort entries by latest sampled RSS (memory) use # --mem reverse-sort entries by latest sampled RSS (memory) use # --rss reverse-sort entries by latest sampled RSS (memory) use # # --u sort/group entries by user # --user sort/group entries by user case "$1" in -h|--h|-help|--help) awk '/^# +processes /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0" exit 0 ;; esac for arg in "$@"; do case "${arg}" in --) break;; # a|u|x|au|ax|ua|ux|xa|xu) select="${select}${arg}";; # aux|axu|uax|uxa|xau|xua) select="${select}${arg}";; --c|--cpu) sort="--sort=-%cpu,-rss";; --i|--id|--p|--pid) sort="--sort=pid";; --m|--mem|--rss) sort="--sort=-rss,-%cpu";; --u|--user) sort="--sort=user,-%cpu,-rss";; # --u|--user) sort="--sort=user,-rss,-%cpu";; --sort=*) sort="${arg}";; *) select="${select}${arg}";; esac done res="$(ps ${select:-aux} ${sort:---sort=pid})" echo "${res}" | awk ' NR == 1 { cut = match($0, /(CMD|COMMAND)$/) ? RSTART : 0 } cut == 0 { print; next } { lead = substr($0, 1, cut - 1) gsub(/^ +| +$/, "", lead) gsub(/ +/, "\t", lead) printf "%s\t%s\n", lead, substr($0, cut) } '