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Hiya all,

Should be simple this one but although I can do this in other languages I have yet to think of a good way using bash.
This is for an init script that may be run on a variety of redhat based systems, therefore it needs to be compatible with bash versions 3.2.25 and 2.05b and therefore cannot use bash regex matching.

Once the service has started I attempt to grab pid information using 'pidofproc' my issue is that sometimes this will output nothing (""), sometimes 1 pid ("1243") and sometimes multiple pids ("1243 8756") and I need to tell the difference between the 3 options.



Solutions I have thought of are ugly or use perl or somesuch
pidofproc comes from redhat's init functions library.

I think this is the first time I've actually asked a question on this site

Of course, what would actually be handy is if the company we pay tens of thousands of pounds to for the software actually provided tools to use the software in a real environment. Sadly changing the software is a project for 2011, until then I have to play

Guessing the pidofproc only returns the pids compared to pidof which also returns the search string.



Something like this might do the trick?

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

simple, should have thought of it myself considering how many times we tell people to beware of using for loops when the data has spaces in lol

thanks Fredrik