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Whats up with the "[f]" in your grep command? grep '[f]sck'

• geraldcombs 7y ago
  It keeps the grep command itself from showing up in the output.
  • linsomniac 7y ago
    Ooh, that's very cute! I usually throw a "| grep -v grep" on the end, but I'm gonna try to remember this.
    • JdeBP 7y ago
      Better to remember pgrep, instead of an incremental change that you'll find still has problem cases (such as matching usernames). * http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#But_I.27m_on_some_old_legacy_Unix_system_that_doesn.27t_have_pgrep.21__What_do_I_do.3F http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#But_I.27m_on_so... M. Wooledge's description of ps options is not quite accurate, but that is incidental to xyr main point.