how to find only PID value

madhusmita · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008

When I run ps -aef | grep aaa.exe it gives out put

Code:

user  5091  5518   0 10:13:25 pts/1       0:00 grep aaa.exe
user  4647  2479   0 09:26:31 ?           0:25 /kk/zzz/user/xxx/bin/aaa.exe
user1  1111  2222   0 08:26:31 ?           0:25 /kk/zzz/user1/xxx/bin/aaa.exe

manas_ranjan · #2 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008

please have a try to this,
ps -ef | grep <value> | awk -F" " '{print $2}'

Yogesh Sawant · #3 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008

try:

Code:

ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep 'aaa.exe' | awk '{print $2}'

psiva_arul · #4 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008

Hi,

You can try with this command

ps -ef | grep "/aaa.exe " | awk -F" " '{print $2}'

Regards,
SP

madhusmita · #5 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yogesh Sawant

try:

Code:

ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep 'aaa.exe' | awk '{print $2}'

also check if the pgrep command is useful for you

Thanks Yogesh Sawant

Best use is pgrep ie ps -aef | grep aaa.exe

madhusmita · #6 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008

it displays PID value with PID of grep aaa.exe but I dont need PID value of grep aaa.exe and again When I stored it to a variable it stores all values ie PID,tty etc but I need only value to store in the variable without grep aaa.exe value ie only running aaa.exe value

Plz suggest

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