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[Solved] Grep ps - How to exclude the "grep ps" itself from the output?
(@hans)
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January 13, 2014 7:14 AM
I often play in a shell with the ps/grep combo, like this one:
ps -ax | grep whatever
The result will show the grep statement as well. With a simple trick, you can exclude the grep statement in the output:
ps -ax | grep [w]hatever
(Square brackets around the first character - this will match lines containing "whatever", which grep '[w]hatever' does not)
