On Thursday 23 Dec 2004 2:55 pm, Vinu Balaji wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep grep|head --lines=-1 > > shridhar 31926 0.0 0.1 1676 584 pts/55 S+ 12:44 0:00 grep - > > You can this to achieve the same! > #bash# ps aux | grep -m 1 grep
not good enough. If you have more than one long running grep, it will still show just one. With head you eliminate the last grep, which is your grep(most probably) because they are ordered by pid..:-) Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
