shell command to find a process id and attach to it?

Question

I want to attach to a running process using \'ffffd\', what I manually do is:

# ps -ax | grep PROCESS_NAME

Then I get a list and the pid, the

Answer 1

As separate commands:

% PID=`ps -ax | grep ${PROCESS_NAME} | grep -v grep | cut -d ' ' -f 1-2`
% ffffd ${PROCESS_NAME} ${PID}

In one line:

% PID=`ps -ax | grep ${PROCESS_NAME} | grep -v grep | cut -d ' ' -f 1-2` && ffffd ${PROCESS_NAME} ${PID}