Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> I have this tweak I'd like to make to the top command (Linux only is
> fine). Most of the time I want to see just one user or all users. Every
> now and again though, I'd like to see all users except another.  Top 
> doesn't support this functionality,

Yes, it (top(1) from procps-ng 3.3.9) does.  Either run

  top -u '!root'

or type “o” (for case-insensitive filter), then e.g. “!USER=root” to show 
processes started by all users except “root”.  RTFM.

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