topic Re: ps command in Operating System - HP-UX

ps command

Manel Ventura — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:44:39 GMT

When I execute "ps -ef | grep ..." only a part of the job appears. How I can see the whole command that it's being executed?

Re: ps command

someone_4 — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:46:23 GMT

Can you post the output you get?
And what you are trying to get?
If it is a job try the command
jobs

Richard

Re: ps command

Richard Darling — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:51:14 GMT

Manel, If I understand your question correctly...it maybe that the line is long. If the line is long it will wrap onto a new line.
RD

Re: ps command

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:02:53 GMT

Hi Manel:

Only a subset of the command line is saved by the kernel and is thus displayed to the 'ps' command. This is noted in the man pages for 'ps'.

...JRF...

Re: ps command

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:20:38 GMT

Hi Manel

I think you want to look at all the related commands ,
try this

ps -ef | grep ....

get the pid

then again

do ps -ef | grep on the pid

Manoj Srivastava

Re: ps command

Mark Vollmers — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:12:35 GMT

You could also pipe the results of the grep to a file that you could view with vi. This would allow you to see the results if the line was wrapping around.

ps -ef |grep "string" > /tmp/file

Mark

Re: ps command

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:03:04 GMT

Hi,

It seems your communication software setting might need some modification. What are you using to connect to your unix box. Set your Terminal Connection Software setting. Under Terminal Settings --> General ---> set Auto wrap to on.

Hope this helps

Thanks
Sanjay

Re: ps command

Philip P. Hartl — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:37:46 GMT

You can also try "$set col=200". This will allow you to see all that is retained in the command buffer.

Re: ps command

Manel Ventura — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:57:59 GMT

Hi,

Looking in the man pages for 'ps' I found the parameter I needed. The option "-x" shows the command line in extended format.

Before:
ps -ef | grep cpp
root 2615 2614 0 22:38:32 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/ccs/lbin/cpp -DHOST=c200 -DSERVERHOST=c200 -DSRVR_c2

Now:
ps -xef | grep cpp
root 2615 2614 0 22:38:32 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/ccs/lbin/cpp -DHOST=c200 -DSERVERHOST=c200 -DSRVR_c200 -DDISPLAY_NUM=0 -DCLIENTHOST=c200 -DCLNT_c200 -DVERSI
ON=11 -DREVISION=0 -DVENDOR="Hewlett-Packard Company" -DVNDR_Hewlett_Packard_Company -DRELEASE=600000 -DNUM_SCREENS=1 -DEXT_SYNC -DEXT_SLSd -DEXT_RECORD -DEXT_HP_COLOR
_RECOVERY -DEXT_Get_RGB_Image -DEXT_DPMS -DEXT_XIE -DEXT_DOUBLE_BUFFER -DEXT_Multi_Buffering -DEXT_SECURITY -DEXT_XC_APPGROUP -DEXT_LBX -DEXT_XC_MISC -DEXT_MIT_SUNDRY_
NONSTANDARD -DEXT_BIG_REQUESTS -DEXT_XTEST -DEXT_XInputExtension -DEXT_MIT_SHM -DEXT_SHAPE -DEXT_XTestExtension1 -DEXT_ShareExtension -DEXT_HPExtension -DSCREEN_NUM=0
-DWIDTH=1280 -DHEIGHT=1024 -DX_RESOLUTION=3743 -DY_RESOLUTION=3751 -DPLANES=8 -DBITS_PER_RGB=8 -DCLASS=PseudoColor -DCLASS_PseudoColor=32 -DCOLOR -DCLASS_PseudoColor_8
=32 -DCLASS_TrueColor_8=33

I think this is a new feature of the 'ps' on HP-UX11i.

Thank you everybody for your help.

Re: ps command

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:37:10 GMT

Hi manel,

Hope i got your name right. Just tried the x options with ps. It did not work on my system. I have ux 11.0 on this. Guess you are right, it is new with ux 11i

Thanks for the info
Sanjay

Re: ps command

Thomas Yake — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:35:38 GMT

On some systems, the

/usr/ucb/bin/ps -aux -ww | grep

will give you exactly what you are looking for.

Re: ps command

Marcelo De Florio_1 — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:56:54 GMT

You can execute this command:

UNIX95= ps -u $user -o comm,args

Another option is use lsof utility.

(you obtain this utiluity http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/alpha.html)

MDF

Re: ps command

Magdi KAMAL — Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:06:54 GMT

Hi Manel,

Normaly ps -ef reports the entire commands running in the system with their arguments.

Try redirecting the output od this command into a file and edit it to see what is missing.

Perhaps your screen is miss configured to print on next line the exceeded 80 characters.

Magdi