perl -MList::Util=first -e 'sub a { my $a; first { $a } 0}; a() while 1' $ vm `pgrep -f List::Util` VmSize: 53940 kB VmSize: 85884 kB VmSize: 117564 kB alias vm='perl -e '\''do{ print `grep VmSize /proc/$ARGV[0]/status` }while(sleep(1))'\'''