md5 hash of process names

[VPSCorey]

using output of

ps -eo pid,comm

Would like to do a md5sum of comm while keeping associated with it's pid.


ps -eo pid,comm | awk '{
tmp="echo -n "$2" | openssl md5 | cut -f2 -d\" \""
tmp | getline cksum
$2=cksum
print
}'

The problem with this if you have extra crap in the comm column such as <defunct> child, etc.  It screws everything up.

Open to anything that can pipe this output to a program that calls it.  Perl/Python etc.  It's for a bash script.

 

[tchen]

ps -eo pid,comm | awk '{
tmp="echo -n "$2" | openssl md5 | cut -f2 -d\" \""
tmp | getline cksum
tmp2=cksum
printf "%d %s\n", $1, tmp2
}'

Basically, try printf

Nifty idea, BTW.

 

[jarland]

I've found md5 hash to be a great way to identify abusive processes that usually belong to bitcoin miners and DOS applications, because the new trend seems to be random generated file names. Don't know if that's what you're doing, but if so...great minds think alike

 

[VPSCorey]

Seems something eventually causes the output to get offset, for now I've just greped what I want and that does not get shuffled.