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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:33:44 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@daycos.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep'ping the ps output....
Message-ID:  <200512121033.44950.kirk@daycos.com>
In-Reply-To: <439DA275.70404@dial.pipex.com>
References:  <439D9FA3.7030603@computer.org> <439DA275.70404@dial.pipex.com>

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On Monday 12 December 2005 10:16, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> ps | egrep firefox | egrep -v egrep

Ouch!  Replace that with:

    ps | grep "[f]irefox"

which will never match the grep commandline itself.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies



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