Charlotte Oliver wrote: > > Additionally, if you're looking for a particular process, you could do: > > ps -aux | grep "processname" > > That will limit the output only to the particular thing you're looking > for, but will show all instances of it.
Of course if you are on Linux you could do: my @pids = `ps -C processname -o pid` =~ /\d+/g; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]