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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't grep name of process Post 303001441 by MadeInGermany on Thursday 3rd of August 2017 03:41:48 PM
Old 08-03-2017
Mabe the process name is too long for pgrep then use pgrep -f (run on the full args).

---------- Post updated at 14:41 ---------- Previous update was at 13:52 ----------

In your post both the second grep(-only) does list the grep process and nothing else!?
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The following uses the [ ] trick to not find itself (its own arguments) in the ps list.
Code:
ps -efl | awk '/Introscope_WebView[.]lax/ {print $3}'

While [ ] can contain any of the characters, a literal dot is preferred because it also changes the wildcard dot (regular expression!) into a literal dot.
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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