Question

I need some help writing a command that will be put into a .sh. I want to return the process id, which in the output below is 3678, but I’m having diffuclty because the process id changes everytime it gets restarted, so my code breaks

Output:

[root@server1 /usr/home/aaron]# ps -xauww | grep java | grep www
www      3678  0.0  3.2 1308176 267864  ??  Is    3:21PM   0:17.19 [java]
[root@server1 /usr/home/aaron]#

Heres what I was doing until I realized the column changed when the pid changed:

ps -xauww | grep java | grep www | cut -d" " -f6

Any help is appreciated. thanks.

Answer 1

One way can be found in: man pgrep