thanks. question: why the counter in your code example? <personally I would open up the source to prstat and do their ps grovelling so that you archive only what you need>
hmm..guess i should have scoured the man page before posting the question. turns out one can print just the Total columns with 'prstat -t' <DUCK> but i learned some valuable info <\DUCK> -----Original Message----- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:30 AM To: Kipp, James Cc: Perl Subject: Re: Help with parsing output On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 06:55 , Kipp, James wrote: > NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU that is the trick throwing away everything before this line, and then doing a basic regEx on the stuff after it: cf: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/Admin/prstatFilter.txt personally I would open up the source to prstat and do their ps grovelling so that you archive only what you need, and output what you need rather than having to do prstat | prstatFilter but your mileage may vary, void where prohibited by law #include <mindlessLegalBoilerPlate.h> ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]