Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:05:34 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With head you eliminate the last grep, which is your grep(most probably)
> > because they are ordered by pid..:-)
>
> Hmm... what if the PID rolled over and started again from 1?
>
We can use the "-o" option of ps command to get the
elapsed time too. The earlier grep cmd should/would
have a greater elapsed time.
eg.
$ grep grep &
$ ps ax -o etime,cmd | grep grep
00:05 grep grep
00:00 grep grep
Now use awk or whatever to sort on elapsed time,
and kill that damn grep!
--
Rohan
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