How to get the process id via KSH or AWK 1

[rousse]

Hello,

I want to check with a ksh script if another process is running and get the process id, too. Also, I am able to get the following line:

userid 2345 1 0 13:58:52 pts/tg 0:00 abcd -a devl -f /home/cfg/abcd.cfg

How can I retrieve the pid value - 2345 - and assign it to a local variable? I tried this unsuccessfully:

TARGET_PID=`ps -ef | grep 'abcd -a' | grep -v grep | cut -d" " -f3`
or...
TARGET_PID=`ps -ef | grep 'abcd -a' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

Any ideas? Thank you.

 

[PHV]

And what about this ?

TARGET_PID=`ps -ef | awk '/abcd[ \t]*-a/{print $2}'`

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[rousse]

Dear PHV,
It works!!! Thanks a lot!
PP