Thanks! I put it into a one-line script. I also made one that's specific to
the games I want to check. here's the generic one.

#!/bin/sh
top -p `pidof $* | sed -e's/ /,/g'`

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:

> After a long battle with technology, Patrick C wrote:
> > So back to the thread title, how can I monitor the various processes? I
> > currently use ps and grep to look at them, but I'd really rather have
> some
> > more information in a self-updating list, like top.
>
> top -p `pidof wesnothd tremded somethingelse | sed -e 's/ /,/g' ` ?
>  That'll
> work if the names of things you want to look at are relatively static.  If
> not, you could wrap that in a bash function that used $1..$9 , and make it
> a
> lot more dynamic....
>
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