On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:22:15 +0530, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another way of achieving the same effect is:
> 
> ps ax | fgrep cron | fgrep -v fgrep

Heh. This brings up one of my favourite Unix interview questions.

How do you do the same thing for a (possibly long running) grep
command? That is, in the example above, instead of cron, how do you
get exactly one line of output if the process in question were a grep?

Binand


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