On Dec 17, 2003, at 8:47 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote: [..]
open(PS, "ps -efA|");
while (<PS>) {
($uid,$pid,$ppid,$c,$stime,$tty,$time,$cmd) = split;
forgive me if I presume that you are running on some version of Linux? ( because by BSD boxes do not like the "A" and my Solaris box would get what you are looking for ) hence
meatbop: 53:] ps -efA | grep httpd.conf
drieux 11069 10988 0 10:08 pts/0 00:00:00 grep httpd.conf
meatbop: 54:] ps -efAww | grep httpd.conf
root 1644 1 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
hqadmin 1645 1644 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
hqadmin 1646 1644 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
hqadmin 1647 1644 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
hqadmin 1648 1644 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
hqadmin 1649 1644 0 Nov10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
drieux 11071 11031 0 10:08 pts/1 00:00:00 grep httpd.conf
meatbop: 55:]
it is possible that you are getting bitten by the classic problem of the 'ps output' being truncated to the 'terminal size' since you did not expressly assert that you wanted to 'go big'.
Hence the problem is NOT with the RegEx, but with limitations of what is actually being put into $cmd based upon the input from the popen() command as invoked.
HTH.
ciao drieux
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