bash script: find processes (/usr/bin/fp)

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bash script: find processes (/usr/bin/fp)

Tuesday, 10^th June, 2008, Uncategorized

I spend a lot of time restarting daemonized ruby processes and need to locate their PIDs on the fly. I got really, really tired of typing all the grep nonsense over and over.

Here is a quick bash script to locate processes by command text.
— begin code –

#!/bin/bash
ps ax | grep "$1" | grep -v grep | grep -v "fp $1"

— end code —

example:

[admin@mon2 scripts]# fp ruby
1160  ? S 09:30   0:15 ruby /scripts/srv.rb
1161  ? S 09:30   0:16 ruby /scripts/test.rb
2583  ? S Jun09   0:06 ruby /scripts/poll.rb
3068  ? S Jun09  71:01 ruby /scripts/diff.rb

2 Comments so far

JD on June 10, 2008 2:50 pm
the grep -v grep probably works best here, but another neat trick that you can pull, which is nice for ad hoc process grepping is this:

ps auxww | grep [s]omething

that will specifically exclude the grep process from the list of matches.
lawrencealan on June 10, 2008 2:54 pm
nice trickery!