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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