debian-gnome/tools/pgrep2

#!/bin/bash
# Colorized pgrep

arg1="$1"


if [[ $arg1 = *"grep"* ]];then
	# remote the grep command itself from process list!
	ps -eo pid,ppid,uname:20,cmd | grep -v $$ | grep --color=auto "$arg1"
else
	ps -eo pid,ppid,uname:20,cmd | grep -v 'grep' | grep --color=auto "$arg1"
fi