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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Better to Use Return Code or wc -l Output? Post 302797915 by Corona688 on Tuesday 23rd of April 2013 12:12:29 PM
Old 04-23-2013
also, pgrep directly prints pid's, so if you need them as output it can be used unfiltered.
 

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