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On Monday 12 December 2005 10:16, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> ps | egrep firefox | egrep -v egrep

Ouch!  Replace that with:

    ps | grep "[f]irefox"

which will never match the grep commandline itself.
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Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies