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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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Subject: Grepping for a process (was Re: Killing process w/o number (csh))
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Date: 26 Apr 91 14:00:29 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.214750.24522@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu
(Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: 
>Because the 'c' option to grep isn't universally supported.  On an A/UX (SysV
>based) system:
>
>% ps axc
>usage: ps [ -edalf ] [ -c corefile ] [ -s swapdev ] [ -n namelist ] [ -t tlist ]
>        [ -p plist ] [ -u ulist ] [ -g glist ]

But note that `x' isn't support either, so if you can do

	ps ax | grep whatever | grep -v grep

you can also do

	ps axc | grep whatever

I assume there's a similar option for System V ?

One case has been pointed out to me that fails: if the `whatever' is a shell
script, the `ps c' will report it as `sh'.

Rob
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