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From: pd@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey)
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Subject: Re: How to find process name in c?
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Date: 17 Jul 90 12:15:30 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lyn@carter.BCASDL.BOEING.COM's message of 13 Jul 90 14:57:36 GMT


In article <570001@carter.BCASDL.BOEING.COM> lyn@carter.BCASDL.BOEING.COM (     Lyn Stewart      ) writes:

   Has anyone got a method for finding out if a process is running short of
   "ps -ef | grep processname" in a pipe.  There must be a better way from
   within a c program.

Well, for interactive use I use csh aliases, they should be easy enough to
move to (k)sh functions if you don't use csh. I've not needed to solve the
problem strictly or within a program.

This is what I use on sys5 machines,


	alias psg 'ps -ef | sed -n -e "/sed -n -e /d\\
		/\!$/p\\
		/TIME COMMAND/p"'

Everything except the 'ps -ef' is ok on BSD. Change that to 'ps aux'

'psg pd' shows all processes containing the string pd. 


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