[svlug] Process watchdog
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri May 2 14:27:07 PDT 2008
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> something like `ps -e | grep tomcat | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
Silly me, how wasteful:
`ps -e | awk '/tomcat/{ print $1 }' | head -n 1`
Or simply:
`pgrep tomcat | head -n 1`
I'm sure someone else knows some awk magic to discard all but the first
match. Actually, I guess that's not even necessary... passing all the
PIDs to kill should be fine.
-brian
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