psgrep

• As you will recall, I try to notice when I am typing the same command line repeatedly

• Then I ask "Should this be a tool?"

Civilization advances by extending the numbers of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

(Alfred North Whitehead)

• psgrep was a happy invention

• It was inspired by

        ps -augxww | grep netscape

• Typical output:

        mjd       7141  0.0  1.0 24208 1392 pts/10   S    Jun02   1:42  /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator-irix-session-management
        mjd      24720  0.0  0.3  1452  488 pts/14   S    15:07   0:00  grep netscape

• Problem #1: too much to type

• Problem #2: crappy grep patterns

• Problem #3: which column is which?

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