Re: Silly grep problem within script

[John H Darrah]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote:

> 
> 
> I am trying to grep for a process as follows:
> 
> [root@ora3]:/usr/local/admin# ps -ef | grep ntpd
> root     24634     1  0 Jan11 ?        00:40:21 /usr/local/bin/ntpd -p
> /var/log/
> root     27476 27214  0 09:25 pts/21   00:00:00 grep ntpd
> 
> Solaris does not print the 2nd line, but RH 62 does. Does
> anyone know any tricks to prevent the second line from
> being displayed. 
> 

A more robust solution would be:

  ps -ec | awk '$6 ~ /ntpd/ {print; exit}'



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