Hello Eric! Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:04:51AM -0600 you wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could explain why it is sometimes there and > not other times. Sometimes the ps process manages to catch the system state when grep has not been started yet by the shell. Sometimes it doesn't. > And how I should correctly go about detecting if the > process is running before I perform my action. You may use the -c flag of ps: -c Change the ``command'' column output to just contain the exe- cutable name, rather than the full command line. Like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ps axc |grep init 1 ?? ILs 0:00,00 init -- DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:)
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