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mapix/grep processes list avoiding the grep itself

Created December 25, 2012 15:37
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grep processes list avoiding the grep itself Trick to avoid the form: grep process | grep - v grep This works because "[h]ttpd" matches only an "h" followed by "ttpd". The line that is printed by "ps aux" is "[h]ttpd" which includes the brackets, therefor not matching.
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