On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:17:35PM -0500 or thereabouts, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> At 09:23 +0930 12 Oct 2000, Brian Salter-Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Or you could just make a minor modification to the grep pattern:
>
> ps -U $LOGNAME | grep 'r[e]almutt' > /dev/null
>
> That way grep won't be able to match itself.
>
Explain how that works would you?
Thanks,
Or have I figured it out myself?
Something like this...
[<character-list>] means "find a single character from this list" so, in the
above example, grep will do
grep realmutt
while its process will look like
grep r[e]almutt
Now, that ROCKS!
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