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Bash implementation of the vmrss linux util
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [[ "${1}" == "" ]]; then
echo "must provide a process"
exit 1
fi
while :
do
ps -o rss "${1}" | tail -1 | numfmt --to=si
sleep 1
done
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vmrss is a useful utility that doesn't exist on macOS, but you can pretty easily recreate it using bash. This prints out the memory used by the provided process once every second, and prints it out in a friendly format. To see raw bytes, you can remove the | numfmt --to=si part.

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