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Re: idl process id [message #11543 is a reply to message #11536]

Tue, 21 April 1998 00:00

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korpela@islay.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) writes:

>
> In article <6hgr8e$qs3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <csaute3@alumni.umbc.edu> wrote:
>> I don't want to do "ps | grep idl" because of the result.
>>
>> IDL> spawn,'ps | grep idl',result,/sh
>> IDL> print, result
>> 23847 pd S 0:02 /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/bin/bin.sunos.4.1/idl
>> 23852 pd S 0:00 sh -c ps | grep idl 23853 pd S 0:00 grep idl
>
> Try this:
>
> IDL> spawn,'ps | grep idl | grep -v grep',result,/sh
> IDL> print,result
> 23847 pd S 0:02 /usr/local/rsi/idl_4/bin/bin.sunos.4.1/idl
> IDL> print,long(result)
> 23847
>
> If you really feel lucky you can try something like......
>
> IDL> ; check your libc version before doing this!
> IDL> result=call_external('/lib/libc.so.1.9','getpid')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ; Great stuff!
> IDL> print,result
> 23847
>

Eric, this is truly amazing. One of the best tips I've seen! Thanks!

I don't speak for JPL, it doesn't speak for me.
Well, not all the time, at least.
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		Re: idl process id By: steinhh on Thu, 23 April 1998 00:00
		Re: idl process id By: Richard G. French on Wed, 22 April 1998 00:00
		Re: idl process id By: korpela on Wed, 22 April 1998 00:00
		Re: idl process id By: Vap User on Tue, 21 April 1998 00:00
		Re: idl process id By: L. Paul Mix on Tue, 21 April 1998 00:00
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