Hi David, > My problem is when I pipe the process list to grep it does not find it. I have > tried with out the wild cards and quotes, with just the quotes, with out the > quotes and wildcard. no luck what am i doing wrong?
You should not use the wildcards. You are grepping remember? Since you are not grepping for an regexp the "*"'s are probably interpreted literally. Never tried using wildcards when grepping for a regexp. They might be useful between two strings, but at the end and front does not make any sense. > [dbrett@dbrett dbrett]$ ps -aux |grep -i "*real*" > dbrett 2951 0.0 0.4 1728 592 pts/1 S 12:13 0:00 grep -i > *real* Maybe you should try a "ps waux | grep real". I bet the word "real" is just around the newline. Bye, Leonard. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list