Add new properties for the path and arguments separately · sindresorhus/ps-list#7

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Currently there's process.cmd, but it includes both the path and arguments. Would be useful for https://github.com/sindresorhus/fkill-cli/issues/16 to have separate process.path and process.args properties.

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I looked into this more, and I might have a solution to get the arguments without the full path. It seems ps -o pid -o comm returns the full path without arguments and ps -o pid -o command returns with arguments. So we could get both columns and just diff them to get the arguments. I think this should be added as a new property in ps-list. So we could add an args property with just the arguments and a path property with the full path to the binary without arguments, just for completeness.

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Research direction: Examine how `process.cmd` is currently parsed from `ps` output, then add new `ps o comm` and `ps o command` invocations to extract the path and arguments separately. Implement a diffing approach to separate args from the full command.
Tech stack: javascriptnodejs
Domain: backendcli
Issue type: Feature
Difficulty: 3
Estimated time: Half day
Activity status: Active
Clarity: Clear
Prerequisites: Node.jsnpm
Newbie friendliness: 70