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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:12 +0200
From:      Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
To:        Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?
Message-ID:  <20081030154512.GB80375@phat.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <d3ea75b30810291502h716ae979r9906a7a053ec5f56@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d3ea75b30810291502h716ae979r9906a7a053ec5f56@mail.gmail.com>

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| By Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com>
|                                          [ 2008-10-30 00:04 +0200 ]
> Hello,
> 
> I need to write a cgi script which will print the output from ps(1) in
> a table (html), so the average-operator can click on a KILL link and
> the cgi will send the selected signal.
> 
> I need to add one ps information per column in a table (html),
> however, I found ps(1) output to be too hard to parse. There is no
> separator. I believed \t was the separator but its not.

Another option might be to mount /proc and use that instead.  See procfs(5).


Regards,
Aragon



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