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Hi,

I want to grep within a script for a process.
The problem is I just no the name of the process not its location.

I tried the following:

ps -ef | grep demo

but than I get also processes which run from the directory demo or where I file like demo.c is open.
So I am searching for something to grep for a process where the last word is demo.
I tried to make a Regular Expression, but the following does not work:

ps -ef | grep -E "demo[$ ]"

Could you please help me?!

Thnx

Ben Sky

use a more stringent search pattern. uses spaces befor and after the word or other char.

ie:

[code]
# ps -Af|grep demo
root 3408 1 0 Oct 08 - 0:22 /usr/lib/errdemon
root 3408 1 0 Oct 08 - 0:22 demo
root 141546 112812 1 11:21:02 pts/43 0:00 grep demo
# ps -Af|grep " demo"|grep -v grep
root 3408 1 0 Oct 08 - 0:22 demo
[code]

Try:
ps -ef | grep demo\$

Thanx for your help, it works!

Ben Sky