[Wolves] Hello...

[Andy Smith]

Hi DragonMaster,

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:00:53AM +0100, DragonMaster wrote:
> > adams at selenium:~$ ps ax | grep apache | grep -v grep | awk {'print $1'}
> > 3933
> > 11133
> > 11135
> > 11136
> > 11138
> > 11139
> >
> > Awk uses tabs as field separators, so I'm telling it to pull out the
> > first one.
> 
> As a hint at the power of Awk, the above line can be shortened to be
>   ps ax | awk '/apache/ {print $1}'

"pgrep apache" is even shorter :)

Cheers,
Andy

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