Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:25:30 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Nicolas Perreten <freebsd@webhosting.com> Cc: "Olivier Cortes (ML)" <receiver@deep-ocean.net>, Alex Boisvert <boisvert@exoffice.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PID of a forked process Message-ID: <20000516142530.E10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005151910240.10518-100000@livid.webhosting.com> References: <EJEFLAEIHOBBKCGOKMJJMEFFCDAA.receiver@deep-ocean.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005151910240.10518-100000@livid.webhosting.com>
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Nicolas Perreten wrote:
> With the above, you risk reading the PID of the grep process..
>
> ps ax | grep "my_process" | grep -v grep | cut -c1-6 is a better bet.
ps ax | awk '/[m]y_process/ { print $1 }' is even better since you only
use two processes instead of four. :-)
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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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