Shell Programming and Scripting

thats seems to work cheers

As a rule, if you're doing grep | grep | grep -v | sed | cut | kitchen | sink, you can rewrite it as a single awk.

Code:

awk '/[m]atch1/ && /[m]atch2/ && !/[m]atch3/ { print $5 }'

The first character of the regexes is obscured in [] so awk doesn't match itself in a ps listing.

5 just means the 5th column, adjust to taste.

Thankyou for the help

@02JayJay02
Please post what Operating System and version you have and what Shell you are running.
There is much variation in the ps command.

Please post what version of Progress you are running.

Do not, I repeat do not ever issue "kill -9" to a Progress database session which is connected to the current Progess instance. It will corrupt your database. Obviously no problem if the database has been restarted in the meantime and these are orphan clients which the database engine could not clean up for some reason (like they were stuck on I/O to a failed disc drive).

Please note that there is a proper procedure for removing Progess client sessions through the Progresspromon utility.

If these are telnet clients, issuing kill -15 to the telnet process will trigger a hangup and cause the database engine to clean up the dead session. This is a safe approach because it triggers Before Image rollback of any active transactions .

Please note that there is a proper sequence of kill signals which will be documented for your version of Progress.

Hi methyl,

SunOS 5.10
Progress Version 9.1E
Im using the bash shell

Thankyou for the info I have been told never to issue a Kill -9 command as it is very dangerous to do, I am aware of the Progress commands however I am not familiar with them, you wouldn't happen to have any documentation on progress commands?

Thanks for your help

Progress 9 product came with a comprehensive manual set. Because of that I never needed an online version.

To check you exact Progress software version, use the version command which comes with Progress. It will be something like 9.1D or 9.1E I guess.

Your version is out of date and no longer mentioned on the Progress website Application Development, SaaS, Cloud Deployment, Complex Event Processing, Data Connectivity and Real Time Decisions Products | Progress Software.

The oldest online documentation for Progress appears to be OpenEdge 10 (the "new" name for Progress):
Progress Communities: OpenEdge 10.1C Product Documentation Overview