Steve Hemond wrote:
>
> I want trap the results of 'ps -ef' command.
>
> I first trap the results by splitting the results in scalar values such as $uid $pid
> $ppid $stime, etc...
>
> I would like, for each line returned, to hold these values in an array, so that, for
> each uid, I could
> return its corresponding pid, ppid, stime, cmd, etc.
>
> What would be the best data structure to use? An hash table in an array? ...
Hey Steve.
Depending on what you want to do with the data, I would just keep a hash relating
UID to the entire 'ps' output record:
my %ps = map { /(\S+)/; ($1, $_) } `ps -ef`;
and then split the record after later extracting it from the hash.
HTH,
Rob
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