BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is > there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: > firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? I think what you mean is that you want to see just processes that are running under your ID. 'ps -u username' does that. 'ps -u root' will give you processes running as root. 'ps -N -u root' will show you processes not running as root. man ps -- John Hasler