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Norrow down that 'PS' output by piping it to 'GREP'
Authored by: ret on Jun 03, '02 02:36:54AM
grep pipe to grep? That's a cardinal sin! :-)

Do this:
ps ax | grep p[p]pd | ...

Using the regexp in there means the grep process won't match itself in the process listing.

cheers
RET

PS: How bad will the backslashitis be on this reply?

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