How to get status of 2 process only

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi John:

> so could you provide me command to check process with 2 or 3 process names, not ID?

Dennis already pointed you in the direction you need --- finding a process _by_name_ without using 'grep'. For example:


# UNIX95= ps -C cron -C syslogd -o pid= -o comm=

...would find and list the pid and the name of the processes named "cron" and "syslogd".

The equal symbol following the 'ps' field name suppresses the heading. The '-C name' switch/argument is valid only when the UNIX95 variable is set. Writing 'UNIX95= ' with whitespace before the command that follows, _without_ any semicolon, sets the variarble only for the duration of the command line. You don't want it capriciously set in your environment as it impacts the behavior of many commands in subtle ways.

Dennis prefers to write something like 'UNIX95=EXTENDED_PS' which could just as well be 'UNIX95=1' _but_ not 'UNIX95=0' as you might infer would turn it _off_. ANY lvalue use of UNIX95 will turn it _on_. Beware.

Regards!

...JRF...

[John Ferro]

Thanks to all...