Hi, I have to frequently find the process ids of particular processes using a combination of ps and grep. For e.g.
ps -elo pid,args|grep myprocess But the problem with above is that it gives me a line for the grep process also. e.g 213456 /home/puneet/myprocess 219876 grep myprocess The way I got around this was by using a further pipe ps -elo pid,args|grep myprocess|grep -v grep But I was wondering if there was a way for me to specify this in the regular expression for the first grep itself. I tried ps -elo pid,args|grep "myprocess\\!(grep)" But this does not give any output. I escaped the ! as without the escape it is considered by the shell as history lookup and it gives me no event found. -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: Tutorial on SVN setup and usage _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
