From: Ken Lareau <elessar@deepika.squonk.net>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Simple way to get parent process name?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:47:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199809151847.OAA03970@mailhost2.squonk.net> (raw)
At my current job I compile a lot of various packages, and tend to log
my configuration, compilation and installation procedures for future
reference, using the 'script' command. To keep myself from getting con-
fused as to whether I was in a 'script' process or not, I would have the
shell prompt change to something else while running 'script'.
In ksh, I'd found no easier way to do this other than:
ppid() { /bin/ps -o ppid -p $1 | tail -1; };
pname () { /bin/ps -o comm -p $1 | tail -1; };
for functions to get the PPID and the name, and then testing
$(pname $(ppid $$))
to see if it was equal to 'script'. For Solaris 5.4, the two previous
functions were even worse:
ppid() { /bin/ps -lp $1 | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -c2- | cut -d' ' -f5; };
pname() { /bin/ps -p $1 | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -c2- | cut -d' ' -f4; };
So my question is, now that I'm using zsh as my shell at work, is there
a simpler way to do this? I know zsh has PPID, but I need the actual
process name as well.
Any suggestions?
Ken Lareau
elessar@numenor.org
next reply other threads:[~1998-09-15 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-15 18:47 Ken Lareau [this message]
1998-09-15 20:13 ` Dan Nelson
1998-09-16 13:09 ` Ken Lareau
1998-09-16 16:08 ` /usr/bin/script annoyance Dan Nelson
1998-09-16 16:31 ` Ken Lareau
1998-09-16 16:41 ` Dan Nelson
1998-09-16 16:53 ` Ken Lareau
1998-09-16 17:13 ` Ken Lareau
1998-09-16 17:40 ` Bart Schaefer
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