On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 08:40:42AM +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Johny schrieb: > >To get a number of the http processes running on my Linux( Debia box) > >I use > >ps -ef | grep "[h]ttpd" | wc -l [...] > The shell does the exact same thing. And by the way: i think you miss a > > grep -v grep
Indeed not. The brackets around the 'h' (which make it a character class, or range if you prefer) prevent the regex from matching itself. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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