On 22 August 2019 22:08:41 GMT-04:00, Andrew Udvare <audv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-08-22, at 12:31, Laurence Perkins <lperk...@openeye.net>
>wrote:
>>
>> A common tactic is to use grep twice:
>> ps auxf | grep -v grep | grep blah
>
>Or grep with brackets:
>
>ps aux | grep '[f]irefox'
>
>I have a function for this:
>
>psgrep() {
> ps aux | grep "[${1:0:1}]${1:1}";
>}
>
>This works because the ps output will have "grep [f]irefox" and the
>regex can't match that line (without escaping the [] again).
Or just use pgrep, I usually use pgrep - fa.
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