[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William T Wilson) wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
>> Is there a built in command, or shell command to retrieve the process
>> name from a pid?
>
>ps ax | awk '$1 == <pid> {print $5}'Or indeed 'ps -o%c h -p <pid>'. This will probably break on other Unices (and older versions of ps, for that matter), but this is debian-user, right? :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

