Programmatically Getting Process ID

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

In article <89pi3n$8lc$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Hernan M. Foffani wrote:
>The portable way to do it (in UN*X, I mean) is to run a script and get
>the output (via pipes), something like:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>ps -ef | grep "$1" | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'

I just got done doing this and, unfortunately, this is not portable.  This
script will not return the PID of the process(es), but rather the user under
which the said process(es) run.

On _my_ Linux distribution, the awk statement should read '{ print $2 }'
instead of $1.  I'm not sure about how well this would work on a non-Linux
system.

Just giving you a heads up.  Thanks again for the information.  :)

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Samuel A. Falvo II
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