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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 19:12:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas Perreten <freebsd@webhosting.com>
To: "Olivier Cortes (ML)" <receiver@deep-ocean.net>
Cc: Alex Boisvert <boisvert@exoffice.com>,
	FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: PID of a forked process
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Nicolas Perreten
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Member in good standing of PETA, People Eating Tasty Animals

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Olivier Cortes (ML) wrote:

> you can also try "pidof my_process"
> 
> in a script, there is a little more complex:
> 
> ps ax | grep "my_process" | cut -c1-6 

With the above, you risk reading the PID of the grep process..

ps ax | grep "my_process" | grep -v grep | cut -c1-6  is a better bet.

-nick


Nicolas Perreten
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