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Subject: Re: grep'ping the ps output....
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 10:16, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> 
> 
>>ps | egrep firefox | egrep -v egrep
> 
> 
> Ouch!  Replace that with:
> 
>     ps | grep "[f]irefox"

Ah, yes.  Very nice.  Thanks.

> 
> which will never match the grep commandline itself.


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Regards,
Eric