[PLUG] Extracting the pid from ps -ax

[D. Cooper Stevenson]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 15:17, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

<snip>

> What's wrong with:
> 
>         ps c | awk '/netscape/ { print $1 }'
> 
> where the "c" flag ensures that the command name is included
> *without* its parameters so that you don't get a hit on the grep
> in the first place!
> 

That's true if you know that the c flag is supported on each of your
target platforms.

-Cooper