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Didn't quite get you... You want to check for PPID also?...

--ahamed

yes i want to checka process with PID and its PPID too
Greping it twice using Pipe will work??

I imagine a great many things will have a ppid of 1... why check it? If you have the PID, that's enough.

There will be only one process with a particular PID whose PPID is 1 right?
I want to see that process only..

What Operating System and version do you have? There is much variation in the "ps" command and "pgrep" is only available on a few systems.

I'm using Solaris, version i'll let you know tomorrow...
can you guide me some "ps" or "pgrep" command that will help me getting the process which has particular PID and PPID =1.

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I'm breaking my head on it..
correct me if i'm wrong
there will be one and only one process running which have particular PID say '12345' and having PPID as 1.. right?

I want to grep this process.which argument should i use with ps or pgrep command

Regards

I don't have your Solaris to try.
A quick fix is to use ordinary grep.

I my "ps" there are exactly 5 space characters after PID and before the start of PPID. Note the leading space before "1085" and the trailing space after "1" to avoid accidental matches. The "1085" was just a PID I was trying.

Code:

ps -ef|grep " 1085     1 "|grep -v "grep"

Afterthought:
This would be much more efficient as:

Code:

ps -fp1085 | grep " 1085     1 "|grep -v "grep"

Couldn't find a suitable "pgrep" command.