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color=#0000ff size=2>'pgrep' will give you the pid:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>$ pgrep ntpd<BR>2106</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>'pkill' could kill it for you. See the
manpage.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>If you want specific ps info for a process, you could ask
for it along with the fields you want instead of using cut or
awk.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=524052816-15062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>See the manpage for all the different fields you can
select. Here's an example:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>$ ps -p `pgrep ntpd` -o pcpu,pmem,start,pid,cmd<BR>%CPU
%MEM STARTED PID CMD<BR> 0.0 0.2 Jun
13 2106 ntpd -N -b -g -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=524052816-15062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If you must grep the full ps output, you can omit the
grep process like this:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>$ ps aux | grep
[n]tp<BR>ntp 2106 0.0 0.2
5052 5052 ? SLs
Jun13 0:01 ntpd -N -b -g -u ntp:ntp</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Andrew
Vong<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:56 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
whitebox-users@beau.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WBEL-users] Another Shell Scripting
Question<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR>Dear Gurus,<BR><BR>Thanks for all who responded to my previous
question. It worked great! <BR><BR>I am now trying to perform a "ps aux | grep
"some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d ......"<BR><BR>I seem to be having 2
problems. <BR><BR>1) What delimiter should I define for cut? I've tried " "
(space) but that does not work.<BR>2) I usually get 2 processes listed. The
actualy one I'm looking for and the line I just executed. How can I exclude the
2nd process which also contains the same "grep <I>regular expression</I>"
?<BR><BR>The above is part of a longer one-liner command I'm trying to
construct. I basically want to kill a specific process and I just want to obtain
the PID for it. So, it may end up looking like this??<BR><BR>$ ps aux | grep
"some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d ...... | xargs kill -9<BR><BR>Or
something along those lines... <BR><BR>Hope someone out there can help me.
<BR><BR>Thanks again. :)<BR><BR>Best Regards,<BR>Andrew<BR><BR></BODY></HTML>