Scripting: formatting ps output w/Perl?
 

Hello :)

I'm writing a script that gives me some pertinent info about my servers, and the last little piece I need to figure out is the process list. There are going to be non-technical people looking at the output of the script and I'm trying to make it as simple as possible.

Right now, if I do ps -ef | grep <process> | grep -v grep
It obviously shows me the process, but the problem is that there is 4 lines of info in front of the process. ie

root PID date time java -1024 -cp oh,my,god,there,is,so,much,data,it,carries,on,for,4,lines,I,want,to,shoot,myself,trying,to,read,it,f inally,in,the,end,there,is,a,space /here/is/the/process

I'd like the output to be something like this:

PID: #### Process: /here/is/the/process

I've thought about how I could take the output and use awk or sed but I know there is probably an easier way to do it with perl.

Can anyone give me a hint on the direction I should be looking?

Thanks!

Damarr

How about:

Thats close :) but there is still a lot of info I want to cut out from the "cmd"

Well have a look through the man pages as I only had a quick glance.

I am, I am....however the command itself is very large. I'm trying now to find a way to show only the last part of the command :)

Last part of what??
For example:
Showing the last part here would get you the file being run but Python is the actual command??

when I type the command you gave me above this is what I get:

12345 java -Xmx1024m -cp /directory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:
/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:
/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:
/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar:
/anotherdirectory/file.jar:/anotherdirectory/file.jar /this/is/the/part/I/want.properties

So, all I want is the last little bit where there is a space between the last mentioned .jar and the file.

In that case I would recommend awk:

Thanks a ton :) that last bit was what I needed.

How about we just use one application to do the work :)

what would be the equivalent of "|grep -v /dev/null" for awk? There are a couple of processes coming up as

PID /dev/null

Thanks!