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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) ps and grep problem Post 302255012 by gus2000 on Wednesday 5th of November 2008 06:09:12 PM
Old 11-05-2008
That's very odd. On my Leopard OSX box, "grep" works exactly as I would expect (that is, "-i" causes it to ignore case).

I don't use Firefox so I can't check, but I would suspect that the "F" in "Firefox" is not really a capital letter "f". If it were, then the pattern would have matched. Maybe it's from an extended character set?

I would dump the "ps aux" output to a file and then verify that the letters are actually what they appear to be and there are no hidden bytes. You might even dump the file through the "hexdump" filter to make sure that an F is still an F.
 

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NAME

       dump - Dump information about Tcl interpreter in TkCon

SYNOPSIS

       dump method ?-nocomplain? ?-filter pattern? ?--? pattern ?pattern ...?

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DESCRIPTION

       The  dump  command  provides  a way for the user to spit out state information about the interpreter in a Tcl readable (and human readable)
       form.  It takes the general form:

       dump method ?-nocomplain? ?-filter pattern? ?--? pattern ?pattern ...?

       The patterns represent glob-style patterns (as in string match pattern $str).  -nocomplain will prevent dump from throwing an error  if	no
       items matched the pattern.  -filter is interpreted as appropriate for the method.  The various methods are:

       dump command args
	      Outputs one or more commands.

       dump procedure args
	      Outputs one or more procs in sourceable form.

       dump variable args
	      Outputs  the values of variables in sourceable form.  Recognizes nested arrays.  The -filter pattern is used as to filter array ele-
	      ment names and is interepreted as a glob pattern (defaults to {*}).  It is passed down for nested arrays.

       dump widget args
	      Outputs one or more widgets by giving their configuration options.  The -filter pattern is used as to filter the config options  and
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SEE ALSO

       idebug(n), observe(n), tkcon(1), tkcon(n), tkconrc(5)

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