On 2022-12-28, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > Dominique Martinet writes: > >> But, really, I just don't see how this can practically be said to be parsable... > > In its current form it never will be. The solution is to place > this variable-length field last. Then you can "cut -d ' ' -f 51-" > to get the command+args part (assuming I counted all those fields > correctly ...) > > Of course, this breaks backwards compatability. > I think that cut command doesn't handle newlines, you probably need cut -z, which looks a bit hacky to me. There already is 'ps -q $$ -o comm=', of course, and that works fine - as well as libprocps. I don't know, I think just adding the strrchr note seems acceptable. Tavis. -- _o) $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com /\\ _o) _o) $ finger taviso@xxxxxxx _\_V _( ) _( ) @taviso
