From: Divya Badrinath <dbadrinath@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T08:24:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Help: Efficient regular expression

Paolo Negri wrote:
> sorry for being OT since I'm not going to talk about ruby or regexp
> 
> If the string you're parsing is an output from the ps command you can
> simplify your life using the -o option that prints only the fields you
> need.
> 
> I.E. in gnu Linux
> 
> ps -ao pid,command
> 
> just outputs pid and command columns.
> Be careful since the command column can contain spaces.
> 
> 
> Paolo

i saw that too. But i can not use all the options in a ps command where 
i am using.
i am limited to using ps -aef

i need to take care of fetching the stuff i need using from this result.

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