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So obviously the title says it all. Is this the best way to view my running processes?

ps -u whoami
Chris Shoup
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    I don't know, is it? What's "best"? As it stands, your question is entirely a question of opinion and such questions are off topic here. Are you maybe asking for alternatives? Also, that command won't actually work, you meant ps -u $(whoami) – terdon Jun 19 '16 at 19:14
  • What about top, ps -A or ps -A | less? All valid... true that the question is a matter of opinion but perhaps you intend to ask for the cleanest, most human-readable form or maybe a way to list processes for only a particular user? – P Smith Jun 19 '16 at 19:18
  • @terdon well since it errors out the answer is a valid "no" :D – Rinzwind Jun 19 '16 at 19:21
  • Seeing as how I use this command it does not give any errors ;) – Chris Shoup Jun 19 '16 at 19:27

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That is not a valid command so: no.

ps -u $(whoami)

would be a valid method but since $USER equals to the current user 

ps -u $USER

is shorter and less consuming. You can also do

top -U $USER

for a real time method (it will refresh the processes) and ordered by %CPU.

Or

pstree $USER

for a tree like view.

Rinzwind
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