On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
> 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
Ok, so are you going to enlighten us as to the answer ? please ?
thanks,
Sharukh.
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