Re: Gack, this shouldn't happen under a stable OS I think

John Henders (jhenders@bogon.com)
24 Sep 1996 16:59:45 -0700


In <dy8f2e.gp4@bigred.inka.de> Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> writes:

>If you really need grep on a ps listing, e.g. to find processes of a
>certain program, the standard way to do this is grepping out the grep:
>ps -aux | grep "httpd" | grep -v grep

A more elegant way is to use something like

ps -aux | grep [h]ttpd

This saves starting an extra process.

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