On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:47:13 +1300
Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> $ ps ax | grep tail
> 25394 pts/0    S      0:00 grep tail

one way i saw to avoid that is to do

ps ax|grep [t]ail , which does not find itself, but does find tail. two
extra keystrokes though.

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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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