dave brett wrote: > > Hi Brian > > same results, it did not find the process. > > thanks > david > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Brian Ashe wrote: > > > On Monday 24 December 2001 12:16, you babbled something about: > > > My problem is when I pipe the process list to grep it does not find it. I > > > have tried with out the wild cards and quotes, with just the quotes, with > > > out the quotes and wildcard. no luck what am i doing wrong? > > > > > > [dbrett@dbrett dbrett]$ ps -aux |grep -i "*real*" > > > dbrett 2951 0.0 0.4 1728 592 pts/1 S 12:13 0:00 grep -i > > > *real* >
try ps auxww |grep -i [r]eal ps will truncate to 80 chars I believe without the w (wrap) each w is an additional lines worth of output. to test what is happening try piping into less The [] will hide the grep command itself Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
