shorti wrote: > Hello, I am a C coder but new to Perl. I am running in an AIX > environment. I was wondering if there was a Perl way to return string > data (or larger int values) to a C program? For instance, if I use > the command : > > ps aux | grep process123 my out put would look like this: > > emextra 45304 0.0 0.0 7344 6120 - A 20:08:01 0:00 > process123 > emextra 97034 0.0 0.0 3184 1984 - A 20:11:25 0:00 > process123 > emextra 123294 0.1 0.0 5100 3580 - A 20:06:47 0:37 > process123 > emextra 186828 0.0 0.0 2328 912 - A 20:07:22 0:02 > db2agent (ERMM) > rsuser 8448 0.0 0.0 2900 284 - A 20:13:24 0:00 > process123 > rsuser 11576 0.0 0.0 2492 312 - A 20:13:24 0:00 > process123 > rsuser 14110 0.0 0.0 1576 288 - A 20:13:24 0:00 > process123 > rsuser 23584 0.0 0.0 2120 324 - A 20:13:24 0:00 > process123 > rsuser 24108 0.0 0.0 2540 280 - A 20:13:24 0:00 > process123 > rsuser 26800 0.0 0.0 1468 356 - A 20:13:24 0:00 > process123 > > I want to retrieve the 2nd and 5th columns of the output. I *think* I > can figure out a way for Perl to get these columns but is there a way > to return these values to my C program? > > Any advise would be appreciated
Piping your output through this Perl filter will do what you describe. perl -ane "print qq(@F[1,4]\n)" HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
