On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:16 +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: > 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 >
Yes. `grep -v grep` filters out all occurrences of 'grep' not just `grep perl`. To get the equivalent, this line is required. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn "Where there's duct tape, there's hope." "Perl is the duct tape of the Internet." Hassan Schroeder, Sun's first webmaster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/