return the total physical memory usage (in MB) of all process with a given name usage: $ ./totalmem.sh chrome
#!/bin/bash
BASENAME=`basename "$0"`
TOTALMEM=0
if (( "$#" == 1 )); then
while read -r line; do
temp=$(echo "$line" | grep $1 | grep -o -E "[0-9]{2,}")
TOTALMEM=$(( $temp+$TOTALMEM ))
done < <(ps -eo comm,rsz ) # process substitution
else
echo -e "Usage: $BASENAME <process name>\n"
exit 1
fi
TOTALMEM=$(( $TOTALMEM / 1024 ))
echo "${TOTALMEM} MiB"
exit 0