Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> writes:
Well, no. ... Fixed strings != "nothing more"
Hah! Indeed, you are correct - thanks for pointing this out.
pgrep won't catch the pipe to grep :) it also has -f, whose lack allowsmatching only inside the invoking exe name.
*nod*Somewhat ironically, i think what might have contributed to my error re. grep's -F was that at the time i wrote that post, i was working on a script making use of pkill, and playing around with its -x option ....
Alexis.

