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Old 12-04-2012
Difference between commands

i need to know the difference between two commands

Code:
ps -ef|grep oracle
ps -ef|grep -v grep |grep oracle


Last edited by Scott; 12-04-2012 at 09:52 AM.. Reason: Cde tags
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Old 12-04-2012
The second one excludes grep itself from the result, and can also be achieved like:

Code:
ps -ef | grep [o]racle

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