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how can I get the full path of a running program ?
Name: Domenico Date: July 17, 2000 at 03:29:48 Pacific
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Hello guys, I hope that someone of you can answer to this question:
How can I get the full path of a running program ?
As you know, the ps command does not return the program name with its full pathname, and I'm looking for a reliable, user-independent way of extracting this information from the operating system (the which command extracts this information from the user local environment !!!).
Name: frans Date: July 27, 2000 at 05:35:44 Pacific
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ps -ef |more ps -ef |grep {command}
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Response Number 2
Name: Domenico Date: August 4, 2000 at 06:18:29 Pacific
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The ps command does not return the FULL pathname of a command ... it returns only the command name !!!!
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Response Number 3
Name: steve t Date: August 12, 2000 at 01:01:58 Pacific
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Please try the following command (as root/super-user):
/usr/proc/bin/pwdx
where is the process id of the program of interest.
pwdx is a proc tool that prints the current working directory of the process.
Good luck and I hope this is what yyou're looking for. Please let me know. Thanks!
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Response Number 4
Name: Domenico Date: September 4, 2000 at 06:17:02 Pacific
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Thank you, Steve !!!
I found the pwdx command on SunOS together with other helpful commands. The problem I have can be resolved using the pmap rather than the pwdx command, because I need to know the location of the executable file of a running process, and the pmap command provides the name of each executable file and shared library loaded in the process address space.
Thank you for your help !!!
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