Since you have the well-known "ps aux | grep $THING | grep -v grep" pattern in there, I'll plug one of my favorite shell functions: psgrep () { ps aux |

Since you have the well-known "ps aux | grep $THING | grep -v grep" pattern in there, I'll plug one of my favorite shell functions: psgrep () { ps aux | sed -n '1p;/\<sed\>/d;/'"$1"'/p' } This does basically the same, but includes the header line from `ps aux` in the output. For instance: $ psgrep alacritty USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND majewsky 3500 0.4 0.5 1427280 93644 ? Sl 12:55 0:01 alacritty