Re: funny bug

[vp@example.com (Viktor Pavlenko)]

>On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:22:00PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
>> >Thanks for sharing the bug. Not knowing much about shell
>> >scripting I was wondering if you could explain the bug?
>> >It's a bit too subtle for me ;)
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>> Shell expands [pP]rog_name to progname if progname is in the
>> current directory and grep process name becomes `grep progname'.
>> So `ps -ef | grep progname' will show the grep process too.
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>> And `ps -ef | grep '[pP]rogname'' will not.
>
>I suppose that's simpler than adding "| grep -v grep".
>

grep '[p]rogname'  ....

(I think I was feeling too smart when writing [pP])


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