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

You can use awk to both filter and get the column you want. The "exit" limits the ps results to the first hit.

function ffffd_grep() {
  ffffd $(ps -ax | awk -v p="$1" '$4 == p { print $1; exit 0; }');
}

ffffd_grep PROCESS_NAME

You may have to adjust the columns for your ps output. Also you can change the == to ~ for regex matching.