Parsing ps and grep output in shell

Question

I get the following message when I do a "ps -ef | grep port" ``` apache 6215 1 0 11:20 ? 00:00:00 perl /scripts/myscript.pl -sn 4123E -sku HSME01-HW -port 8 ``` Is there a way to parse the following: - start time (11:20) - sn (4123E) - sku (HSME01-HW) - port (8)

Accepted Answer

You can use `awk` for both filtering and parsing:

```
ps -ef | awk '/[p]ort/ {printf "start time: %s
sn: %s
sku: %s
port: %s
", $5, $11, $13, $NF}'
```

As glenn jackman pointed out in the comments the square brackets in the filter string prevent the expression from matching the filter string itself in the process list.

Parsing ps and grep output in shell

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