Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi.

I use this command to get list of running process:

Code:

ps -ef|grep ICP|grep -v grep

But how do I set the terminal to show full command? It seems that it always truncated to 60 chars no matter what options I put.

e.g output

Code:

oracle9 25011 24998  0 03:00:05 ?         0:00 /usr/bin/sh /bistari/dw/iodds1/oradata/load/ICP/load_incr_ic

whereby there are several other load_incr_ic inside that directory which might belong to someone else's script.

Thank you.

Does it show all processes truncated? Or does it just truncate processes that belong to someone else? Does it always truncate your processes?

What OS are you on, what shell (bash, zsh, ksh...etc.)?

That behavior can be system specific - truncating command lines in ps.

Did you try ps | less to check the length of lines then? Did you try COLUMNS=600 ps?

This does not solve your problem, but removes one grep

Code:

ps -ef | grep [I]CP

should give the same as

Code:

ps -ef | grep ICP | grep -v grep

Should be quoted, to avoid a match in the current work directory (in this case only saves some I/O operations)

Code:

ps -ef | grep '[I]CP'

Most efficient is pgrep.
The limited length of shown arguments is OS-specific.

Thanks all for your response.

But it seems there is no proven solution yet.

OK, I am telnetting to HP-UX s34klj69 B.11.00 U 9000/800 (th)

It is using sh mode I think.

So, the problem is I want to kill my job if it hangs and runs for a very long time. So, the part of the job command is ICP. So, here is what happens as in the screenshot attached..



Actually the 60 chars thing I found out after been googling about this issue

Please help.

Thanks.

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By the way, how do I sort the grep command to sort the last column i.e. the running command?

Thank you.