Process Grepper and Killer for Mac OS X

psg

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

kill = false
name = ARGV[0]
if (name == "-k")
  kill = true
  name = ARGV[1]
end
if name 
  ps = `ps axwu|grep -i [#{name[0..0]}]#{name[1..1000]}|grep -v "  #{Process.pid}"`
  if (ps == "")
    puts "No processes found"
  else
    puts ps
    if kill
      ps.split("\n").each do |line|
        pid = line[/.*?(\d+)/,1].to_i
        if pid
          puts "Killing #{pid}"
          `kill -9 #{pid}`
        end
      end
    end
  end
else
  puts "usage: psg [-k] name"
  puts "  Grep for a process name excluding the grep process"
  puts "  -k Kill all matching processes"
end