your program output...
exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS
`your_cmd -erase_all_files` is the real process, but harmless-looking getty appears in the process table.
Never actually had a need to do this, but interesting nonetheless... Tested in bash, dash.
-a $NAME
"pass NAME as the zeroth argument to COMMAND", i.e. customise the name of the process (as commonly seen with `ps`)
Show Sample Output
The classical 'ps aux | grep' can do this with one more parameter, the '-v', with means 'NOT' to grep.
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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ps aux | grep -v name_you_want_to_hide
The classical 'ps aux | grep' can do this with one more parameter, the '-v', with means 'NOT' to grep.