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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Hide: deceive all those nosy "ps -ef" calls.
Message-ID: <6605@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 18:18:51 GMT
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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Organization: Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store Co.
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This is a *very* short program I wrote once when I wanted to screw around
a little without advertising the fact to anyone doing a "ps".  The program
I wanted to call just needed to be called -- no arguments or anything on it.

So I wrote "hide".  You call hide as such:

	hide <program to call> <what ps should see>

This really is kinda dumb, but I had a few minutes during a compile/test
sequence.... -Joe

(Oh.  It's SysV, but I bet it works on most Unix-like machines.)


#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive, meaning:
# 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line.
# 2. Save the resulting text in a file.
# 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create:
#	hide.c
# This archive created: Tue Jun 13 13:12:55 1989
export PATH; PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
if test -f 'hide.c'
then
	echo shar: "will not over-write existing file 'hide.c'"
else
cat << \SHAR_EOF > 'hide.c'
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
	execl(argv[1], argv[2], 0);
}
SHAR_EOF
fi
exit 0
#	End of shell archive
-- 
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