[PLUG] Extracting the pid from ps -ax

[Richard F Seymour]

You could try:

ps ax | grep mpg123 | awk '{print $1}'


or to exclude the grep line itself:

ps ax | grep [m]pg123 | awk '{print $1}'


There's a better way to do my second try, but I can't remember it.

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