On 8/23/19 5:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On 22 August 2019 22:08:41 GMT-04:00, Andrew Udvare <audv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>
> Or just use pgrep, I usually use pgrep - fa.
>
Ah, that is what I was looking for
thx,
James
