Format ps output. Show most memory heavy procs

Question

I am trying to get this output

  15%   abc
   7%   xyz

Running this command

ps axo pmem,args --sort  -pmem,-rss,-vsz | grep -v grep | 
                      grep  -e abc-e xyz | awk {'print $1'}

How can I fit my grep -e arguments inside the output?

Right now, predictably, I am only getting

15%
7%

You can assume that my Python script is creating the command on the fly and that I can modify it any way I need to.

Do you want to use that specific output for anything else? if not top/htop are pretty awesome — Junaga
– Junaga, Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 22:14
Basically, problem i am trying to find is a) find out what speficic apps are running as a given user (done), b) figure out whether box itself is running hot (done) and c) if box is running hot - are any of my apps (known) are responsible for it. What I need is to link ps output with app name — JAM
– JAM, Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 22:16
You've documented the expected output, could you put the input into the question also ? Might be possible to lose the greps and just do the matching within awk. — steve
– steve, Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 22:36

Marcs · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-01 23:42:23Z

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From the output example I think you need something like this:

ps axo pmem,args --sort -pmem,-rss,-vsz | awk '{print $1 "% " $2}' | grep -e abc -e xyz

Output should be:

15.0% abc
7.0% xyz

answered Nov 1, 2016 at 23:42

Marcs

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