--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# looks for process names for a particular user. if no user is specified, then this
+# assumes we should look for the current user's processes.
+
+user="$1"
+if [ -z "$user" ]; then
+ user="$USER"
+fi
+
+ps wuax | grep $user | awk '{ print $11; }'