Return Process ID Only

[bopritchard]

I want to locate a process by name and return it's Process ID ONLY...

i've been doing ps -ef|grep smr|grep -v grep

but that gives me the whole line...all i want returned is the ID

 

[raider2001]

Try piping the result to awk:

ps -ef | grep smr | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'

This will take field 2 of the result. The default field separator for awk is white space. This is just the tip of the iceberg for what awk can do.