#!/bin/bash #This one was easy to do simply but elegance was a harder target #the core of it was w | grep $@ #the "| cut -b 0-9" was necesarry for only the username #The echo on failure is often used to let the user know how to use a program. if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "Format: userprogbg string" else ps aux | grep $@ | cut -b 1-9 fi