Happy Almost New Year!
I want to run a command inside a script. From the shell, here's the command:
% ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk '{print $2}'
19460
What is returned is the pid of the process being grep'd.
But, when I put this into a test script,
my $pid = `ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk
'{print $2}'`;
print "\$pid is: $pid \n";
here's what I'm seeing ,
$pid is: root 19460 1 0 Dec 18 ? 0:08 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m
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It seems to be only going as far as dropping off the grep, and not doing the
awk '{print $2}'. I've tried this with the system() call, with the same
results.
What am I missing? :-(
deb
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