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# 1  
Old 05-28-2012
How can I get parent process program name?

Hi:

I have 2 script on AIX server.
The child script is called by parent script.
For example:
The parent script full name is
Code:
/home/op/def/parent.spt

, which calls

Code:
/home/op/abc/child.spt

I want to get the parent program name with full path name (i.e. /home/op/def/parent.spt),
in /home/op/abc/child.spt.
It is because of both of them are not have the following statement:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

it make the child script cannot get the parent process program name and path name via ps command.

Is there any other method to get the parent process program name?
If cannot , Is there any other method to get the parent process program name path name?

thank you very much

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-28-2012 at 08:57 AM.. Reason: Give more detail information - mod: code tags
# 2  
Old 05-28-2012
USE IT IN CHILD SCRIPT
Code:
PP_ID=`echo $PPID`
for PS_DT in `ps -ef`
do
PS_ID=`echo $PS_DT|tr -s " "|cut -d" " -f3`
if [ $PS_ID -eq $PP_ID ]; then
PS_NAME=`echo $PS_DT|tr -s " "|cut -d" " -f9`
echo $PS_NAME
exit 1
fi
done

# 3  
Old 05-28-2012
/home/op/def/parent.spt
Code:
/home/op/abc/child.spt "`ps -ef|awk '$2=='$$'{print $NF}'`"

/home/op/abc/child.spt
Code:
echo "this is parent process name -> $1"

# 4  
Old 05-28-2012
because of missing #!/bin/ksh, the process file name cannot found in ps output, so I want to find other method to do so.
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