On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:51:22AM -0400, Rob Reid wrote:
> At 8:17 PM EDT on Oct. 11 Aaron Schrab brought me out of hibernation for this:
>
> > Or you could just make a minor modification to the grep pattern:
> >
> > ps -U $LOGNAME | grep 'r[e]almutt' > /dev/null
> >
> > That way grep won't b
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 05:51:22AM -0400, Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It works, but I don't understand why. Shouldn't 'r[e]almutt' just parse to
> "realmutt"?
Yes, it's the same as matching with the regex 'realmutt'. However,
the grep process will appear in the ps listing as "grep
At 8:17 PM EDT on Oct. 11 Aaron Schrab brought me out of hibernation for this:
> At 09:23 +0930 12 Oct 2000, Brian Salter-Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:38:31PM -0700, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> > > > if ps -U $LOGNAME | grep realmutt > /dev/null
> > >
> > > Be
