[plug] Small problem with cut

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sunday 16 May 2004 02:14, Sawan Vithlani wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> I have a small problem with using the cut utility:
>
> I want to grab the pid of a certain process, so try this:
>
> ps ux|grep "kdeinit: konqueror -session"
>
> This gives me the whole process line, the second field of which is the
> pid as shown:
>
> sawan     6460  0.3 11.8 77976 61448 ?       S    May14   7:08 kdeinit:
> konqueror -session
> 113ffb8855000108305114500000066510347_1084124886_479563

Why don't you use /proc ?

e.g.
  grep -l "kdeinit: konqueror -session" /proc/[1-9]*/cmdline | cut -d/ -f 3

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