On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:51:22AM -0400, Rob Reid wrote:
> At 8:17 PM EDT on Oct. 11 Aaron Schrab brought me out of hibernation for this:
>
> > Or you could just make a minor modification to the grep pattern:
> >
> > ps -U $LOGNAME | grep 'r[e]almutt' > /dev/null
> >
> > That way grep won't be able to match itself.
>
> It works, but I don't understand why. Shouldn't 'r[e]almutt' just parse to
> "realmutt"?
Consider the difference between these:
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| davep@hagbard:~$ echo foo | grep fo[o]
| foo
| davep@hagbard:~$ echo fo[o] | grep fo[o]
| davep@hagbard:~$
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