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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers In Bash shell - the ps -ef shows only the /bin/bash but the script name is not displayed Post 303037099 by MadeInGermany on Tuesday 23rd of July 2019 08:13:05 AM
Old 07-23-2019
In ps -f or ps -o args it is
always ksh scriptname or bash scriptname.
In ps -o fname it is
  • bash when started as bash scriptname
  • scriptname when started as ./scriptname


Unfortunately some OS have a very small field for the fname. So it may appear truncated e.g. scriptname can become scriptna.

Some OS have ps -o comm as a wider field and use it like the fname, some other OS stuff the pathname into it.

Note: that the default scope is: only processes with a terminal associated,
-e means all processes,
-u user means all processes owned by user.

Last edited by MadeInGermany; 07-23-2019 at 02:19 PM.. Reason: fixed a typo
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)
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