From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eros.uknet.ac.uk ([192.91.199.2]) by archone.tamu.edu with SMTP id <45319>; Mon, 20 Apr 1992 09:19:57 -0500 Received: from ibmpcug.co.uk by eros.uknet.ac.uk with UUCP id <20000-0@eros.uknet.ac.uk>; Mon, 20 Apr 1992 11:34:37 +0100 X-Phone-Work: +44 81 863-1191 X-Fax-Work: +44 81 863-6095 X-Favourite-Colour: black, of course. Newsgroups: list.rc In-Reply-To: <703730762.2950.0@elementary.bh.andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.1.2 7/11/90) To: rc@archone.tamu.edu Subject: Re: jobs list Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1992 04:19:31 -0500 From: Matthew Farwell Sender: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk Message-ID: <9204201019.aa14391@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> In article <703730762.2950.0@elementary.bh.andrew.cmu.edu> you write: >I've been using "echo $apids" and "ps pid" a lot recently, so I wrote >this. I don't know if I like it yet... > [ deleted ] Course, if you had a sensible ps..... Script started on Mon Apr 20 10:16:37 1992 ; sleep 3600 & sleep 3600 & sleep 3600 & 14342 14343 14344 ; echo $apids 14342 14343 14344 ; ps -fp,^$apids UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND dylan 14342 14341 0 10:16:45 p0 0:00 sleep 3600 dylan 14343 14341 0 10:16:49 p0 0:00 sleep 3600 dylan 14344 14341 0 10:16:53 p0 0:00 sleep 3600 ; script done on Mon Apr 20 10:17:13 1992 Dylan. -- "It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to what my mother used to say" "Why, what did she say?" "I don't know - I never listened."