Re: Note to all XCompMgr Users

[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl>]

Michal Jaegermann said:     (by the date of Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:17:53 -0600)

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 06:11:58PM +0200, Janek Kozicki wrote:
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > PID=`ps auxw | grep "janek" | grep -e " xcompmgr$" | fgrep -v "grep" | awk '{print$2}'`
> ....
> Just as aside - the above can be simplified to
> PID=$(pgrep -u janek -f xcompmgr)
> and if you really want ps and awk then
> PID=$(ps auxw | awk '$1 == "janek" && $0 ~ /[x]compmgr/{print $2}').
> Also a status from 'killall -u janek -0 xcompmgr 2>/dev/null' can
> be used but this does not give PID (which is not that important).
> 
> Moreover a string "janek" is likely better replaced above by an
> ouput of 'id -un'.

thanks! I always like to learn a bit more about command line tools :)

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |