Re: /proc/${PID}/cmdline parsing

Mihamina Rakotomandimby <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.newbie
Organization Gulfsat
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> Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> :
>> If I launch a 
>>  $ watch find / -type f -name 'toto'
>> (it's a useless command just for the example)
>> and then I get the PID of this.
>PID of what? watch or find?

PID of "watch"

>> When I 
>>  $ cat /proc/${PID}/cmdline
>>  watchfind/-typef-nametoto
>> Yes, it's the command line, but I would like to parse it, in order to
>> display the launched executable + its arguments.
>> How to parse it?
>Could you be a bit more clear with your question?

I want to split "watchfind/-typef-nametoto" (the content
of /proc/${PID}/cmdline) to get "watch find / -type f -name toto" (the
command I issued above)

But I cannot figure out how to split it.
Would you know another place in the system I should look at?

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