Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > > next if /grep/; No. The op was using grep to filter processes from the output of ps. he had a filter of
grep -v grep so that the filter itself wouldn't be selected. John is using perl to filter the processes, so instances of grep shouldn't be filtered out. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/