awk script

[Scott W. Adkins]

In article <1991Mar18.182106.2313 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>:
>:CMD='artemis'
>:ME=`whoami`
>:PROC=`ps -ef|grep /${CMD}|            \
>:awk '{ $1 == ${ME} && $8 != "grep"  $2 }' `
>:kill -HUP ${PROC}
>
>Two problems: 
>    you don't want that slash in the grep command,
>    you can't depend on field counts on ps (on mine at least)

If you are trying to parse the command from the 'ps' line, I merrily use
    current=substr($0,50)
to get it all into a variable.  The reason you can't depend on field
counts is because some commands have spaces in them, such as 'vi file'. 
Others may be shell scripts or sub-processes that may start with 
'/bin/sh blah blah' or even 'sh -c blah blah'.  It is really hard to 
count on field counts with 100% success.  

Scott Adkins
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