John, thanks for the perl approach. Mustn't forget about that!
deb
At 20:59:59, on 01.02.04:
Cracks in my tinfoil beanie
allowed John W. Krahn to seep these bits into my brain:,
Deb wrote:
I want to run a command inside a script. From the shell, here's the command:
% ps -ef |
Deb wrote:
I want to run a command inside a script. From the shell, here's the command:
% ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk '{print $2}'
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open PS, 'ps -ef |' or die Cannot open pipe from 'ps -ef' $!;
my $pid;
while ( PS ) {
next unless
At 17:50:40, on 12.30.03:
Cracks in my tinfoil beanie allowed Andrew Gaffney to seep these bits into my brain:,
Try changing the $2 to \$2. Perl is interpolating $2 before it gets to
bash, so bash sees /bin/awk '{print }'.
--
Andrew,
Ah!!! That was it. I should have seen that. Thanks
At 15:58:26, on 12.30.03:
Cracks in my tinfoil beanie
allowed Bakken, Luke to seep these bits into my brain:,
Instead of the useless 'grep -v grep', do this:
% ps -ef | egrep '[/]usr/lib/sendmail' | awk '{print $2}'
Ah, yes, much cleaner. Old habits die hard. :-)
But, when I put this
On Dec 31, 2003, at 9:04 AM, deb wrote:
Drieux,
Vladimir???
yes, named after vladimir ilyich,
it is my Sparc Box.
:-)
Thanks for the hints. :-)
Personally I would be doing it with something like
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/Proj/Wetware_ps/
Which of course first started out as
deb wrote:
Happy Almost New Year!
I want to run a command inside a script. From the shell, here's the command:
% ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk '{print $2}'
19460
What is returned is the pid of the process being grep'd.
But, when I put this into a test
I want to run a command inside a script. From the shell,
here's the command:
% ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep
| /bin/awk '{print $2}'
19460
Instead of the useless 'grep -v grep', do this:
% ps -ef | egrep '[/]usr/lib/sendmail' | awk '{print $2}'
But, when
On Dec 30, 2003, at 3:54 PM, deb wrote:
Happy Almost New Year!
[..]
It seems to be only going as far as dropping off the grep, and not
doing the
awk '{print $2}'. I've tried this with the system() call, with the
same
results.
What am I missing? :-(
you have a shell interpret who to which
