> On 2019-08-22, at 12:31, Laurence Perkins <lperk...@openeye.net> wrote: > > A common tactic is to use grep twice: > ps auxf | grep -v grep | grep blah
Or grep with brackets:
ps aux | grep '[f]irefox'
I have a function for this:
psgrep() {
ps aux | grep "[${1:0:1}]${1:1}";
}
This works because the ps output will have "grep [f]irefox" and the regex can't
match that line (without escaping the [] again).
--
Andrew
