Output of ps + awk in a variable to get PID

amio · #1 03-10-2009

Hi All,

I am getting the PID of a process using its name using the following command
in a script

Code:

mypid=`ps aux | awk '/test5/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`
echo PID is $mypid

Digby · #2 03-10-2009

What kind of script is it? It's probably not that same as the shell you are working from.

Your command wouldn't work in my console. But it did when I changed it to this.

Code:

set a = `ps aux | awk '/test5/ && \!/awk/ {print $2}'`

danmero · #3 03-10-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by amio

The problem is the PID is not getting printed. But when i run the command directly in shell, the PID got printed.

Code:

# mypid=`ps aux | awk '/sshd/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`
# echo PID is $mypid
PID is 2077 2801 2806 2985 3410

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