Operating on each of the individual outputs of a command

[frans]

Originally Posted by proactiveaditya

ps -e -o pcpu,pid,cmd --sort pcpu | sed '/^ 0.0 /d'|awk '{print $2}'|grep -v PID

Gives the output:

4482
4023
5912

I want to operate on each pid in the output. How to do so.

for PID in $(ps -e -o pcpu,pid,cmd --sort pcpu | sed '/^ 0.0 /d'|awk '{print $2}'|grep -v PID)
do
    echo "the PID is $PID" # or whatever you want to do with that PID
done