[SOLVED] Small exec question

[EzMe]

Lo all

I'm trying to find out true a tcl script how long a linux application is running true the following script:

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### !status
bind pub * !status pub_status
proc pub_status { nick host handle chan text} {
  		catch { exec ps aux | grep -i rcracki_mt | awk '{print $10}' } status 
  		putmsg $chan "\002\0034::\003 rcrack is running for $status \002"
}

When I run it in bash it returns me for example the following information as expected:

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[ezme@EzMe r2d2]$ ps aux | grep -i rcracki_mt | awk '{print $10}'
3:12

When I run it true my eggie

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[10:11] <@EzMe> !status
[10:11] <R2D2> :: rcrack is running for can't read "10": no such variable 

So it seems i need to put the command in quotes or something but that doesn't seem to work eather. Als i tried putting the command in a variable but again no succes.

Any idea's on how to tackle this problem?

Thanks in advanced

Grtz EzMe

[Madalin]

Try

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### !status 
bind pub * !status pub_status 
proc pub_status { nick host handle chan text} { 
        catch { exec ps aux | grep -i rcracki_mt | awk '{print \$10}' } status 
        putmsg $chan "\002\0034::\003 rcrack is running for $status \002" 
} 

[EzMe]

I was able to fix it with this method:

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### !status
bind pub * !status pub_status 
proc pub_status { nick host handle chan text} { 
        catch { exec ./status.sh } output 
	      set grr $output
        if {$grr == ""} {
	           putmsg $chan "\002\0034::\003 rcrack is not running\002"
	      return
   	}
	      if {$grr != "0:00"} {
	           putmsg $chan "\002\0034::\003 rcrack is running for $grr minutes..\002"
	}
    close $grr
}

where status.sh contains the following line:

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ps aux | grep -i '[r]cracki_mt' | awk '{print $10}'

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