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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: PID of a forked process
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Nicolas Perreten wrote:

> 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.

ps ax | awk '/[m]y_process/ { print $1 }' is even better since you only
use two processes instead of four. :-)

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