[BusyBox] suggestions for "ps"

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Jul 5 23:45:55 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 05 July 2005 06:14 pm, Robert Urban wrote:
> 	BusyBox v0.60.5 (2004.06.13-19:39+0000) multi-call binary

pretty outdated ... busybox-1.0's ps doesnt even show tty anymore ;)

> Also, another useful feature to make scripting easier would be an
> option to display only the executable-name portion of the "Command",
> rather than the whole command.  This would make it much easier to
> determine if a program was running:  instead of having to
>
> 	ps | grep proggy | grep -v grep

or you could use `pgrep` ...
-mike



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