Rethinking the shell pipeline

[mmix]

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2012/08/10 ... -pipeline/

$ dps
<{'pid': <uint32 1>, 'ppid': <uint32 0>, 'euid': <uint32 0>, 'egid': <uint32 0>, 'user': <'root'>, 'cmd': <'systemd'>, 'cmdline': <'/usr/lib/systemd/systemd'>, 'cmdvec': <['/usr/lib/systemd/systemd']>, 'state': <'S'>, 'utime': <uint64 38>, 'stime': <uint64 138>, 'cutime': <uint64 3867>, 'cstime': <uint64 1273>, 'time': <uint64 1344635046>, 'start': <uint64 1>, 'vsize': <uint64 61488>, 'rss': <uint64 24408>}>
<{'pid': <uint32 2>, 'ppid': <uint32 0>, 'euid': <uint32 0>, 'egid': <uint32 0>, 'user': <'root'>, 'cmd': <'kthreadd'>, 'cmdline': <'[kthreadd]'>, 'state': <'S'>, 'utime': <uint64 0>, 'stime': <uint64 1>, 'cutime': <uint64 0>, 'cstime': <uint64 0>, 'time': <uint64 1344635046>, 'start': <uint64 1>, 'vsize': <uint64 0>, 'rss': <uint64 0>}>
...

Not super-readable, but its a textual format that you could combine with traditional tools like grep and awk.

But, with the type information we can do more interesting things. For instance, we could filter using a numeric comparison, say finding
all system uids:

$ dps | dfilter euid \< 1000
<{'pid': <uint32 1>, 'ppid': <uint32 0>, 'euid': <uint32 0>, 'egid': <uint32 0>, 'user': <'root'>, 'cmd': <'systemd'>, 'cmdline': <'/usr/lib/systemd/systemd'>, 'cmdvec': <['/usr/lib/systemd/systemd']>, 'state': <'S'>, 'utime': <uint64 38>, 'stime': <uint64 139>, 'cutime': <uint64 4290>, 'cstime': <uint64 1318>, 'time': <uint64 1344635266>, 'start': <uint64 1>, 'vsize': <uint64 61488>, 'rss': <uint64 24408>}>
<{'pid': <uint32 2>, 'ppid': <uint32 0>, 'euid': <uint32 0>, 'egid': <uint32 0>, 'user': <'root'>, 'cmd': <'kthreadd'>, 'cmdline': <'[kthreadd]'>, 'state': <'S'>, 'utime': <uint64 0>, 'stime': <uint64 1>, 'cutime': <uint64 0>, 'cstime': <uint64 0>, 'time': <uint64 1344635266>, 'start': <uint64 1>, 'vsize': <uint64 0>, 'rss': <uint64 0>}>
...

Then we can add numerical sorting:

$ dps | dfilter euid \< 1000 | dsort rss
<{'pid': <uint32 1>, 'ppid': <uint32 0>, 'euid': <uint32 0>, 'egid': <uint32 0>, 'user': <'root'>, 'cmd': <'systemd'>, 'cmdline': <'/usr/lib/systemd/systemd'>, 'cmdvec': <['/usr/lib/systemd/systemd']>, 'state': <'S'>, 'utime': <uint64 38>, 'stime': <uint64 139>, 'cutime': <uint64 4290>, 'cstime': <uint64 1318>, 'time': <uint64 1344635365>, 'start': <uint64 1>, 'vsize': <uint64 61488>, 'rss': <uint64 24408>}>
<{'pid': <uint32 769>, 'ppid': <uint32 745>, 'euid': <uint32 0>, 'egid': <uint32 0>, 'user': <'root'>, 'cmd': <'Xorg'>, 'cmdline': <'/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none -logverbose 7 -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt1'>, 'cmdvec': <['/usr/bin/Xorg', ':0', '-background', 'none', '-logverbose', '7', '-seat', 'seat0', '-nolisten', 'tcp', 'vt1']>, 'state': <'S'>, 'utime': <uint64 1602>, 'stime': <uint64 3145>, 'cutime': <uint64 22>, 'cstime': <uint64 9>, 'time': <uint64 1344634285>, 'start': <uint64 1081>, 'vsize': <uint64 108000>, 'rss': <uint64 16028>}>
...

And, nice display:

$ dps | dfilter euid \< 1000 | dsort rss | dhead 4 | dtable pid user rss vsize cmdline
pid user rss vsize cmdline
1 'root' 24408 61488 '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd'
769 'root' 16028 108000 '/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none -logverbose 7 -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt1'
608 'root' 15076 255312 '/usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork'
747 'root' 8276 452604 '/usr/sbin/libvirtd'