From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 11 6:46:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 1A90E37B40D; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 06:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 06:46:13 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: Sheldon Hearn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for comments on a new utility... Message-ID: <20020611064612.A703@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <20020611051517.A87966@FreeBSD.ORG> <47290.1023799280@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020611063707.C97611@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020611234055.N91173@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020611234055.N91173@zeus.theinternet.com.au>; from akm@theinternet.com.au on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:40:55PM +1000 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Andrew Kenneth Milton escriurères > +-------[ Juli Mallett ]---------------------- > | > | Wasn't really aware of that existing, but my understanding from another message > | in this thread is it just works with the output from ps(1)? That seems a bit > | icky to me. > > Piping commands through other commands seems icky? Relying on reasonable output from ps(1) seems icky when you can extract the data yourself and not have to worry about formatting getting in the way of processing data properly. -- Juli Mallett FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Perception is prejudice / Don't classify me / Accept me as me / Not what you see To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message