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From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>
To: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
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Subject: Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?
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Hi,

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:12 +0200, Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
wrote:
> | By Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com>
> |                                          [ 2008-10-30 00:04 +0200 ]
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to write a cgi script which will print the output from ps(1) in
>> a table (html), so the average-operator can click on a KILL link and
>> the cgi will send the selected signal.
>>
>> I need to add one ps information per column in a table (html),
>> however, I found ps(1) output to be too hard to parse. There is no
>> separator. I believed \t was the separator but its not.
> 
> Another option might be to mount /proc and use that instead.  See
> procfs(5).
> 
I wouldn't do that. IIRC procfs(5) is deprecated in FreeBSD.
But I could be wrong...

regards,
Marian