On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:37:43AM +0000, John Tobin wrote:
> > What is it about grep and RE that causes this behaviour ? (note that the
> > above example is not always correct. For example,
>> The command line as shown by ps will be "grep [f]oo", which doesn't
> match "foo".
Doh!
> > niall at bagend:~ >ps -ax|grep [f]oo
> > 1944 pts/8 S 0:00 grep foo
> >
> > but if you ensure that grep sees the RE like this
> >
> > niall at bagend:~ >ps -ax|grep "[f]oo"
> > niall at bagend:~ >
> >
> > it's fine)
>> Do you by any chance have a file called foo in that directory? bash
Double doh! - I know bash expands [f] hence I quoted it for grep but making
the logical leap of looking for a local foo escaped me :-) - I do of course
have one.
> > Does grep manipulate its arguments as saved or what ? Because I called my
> > script ssh-agent-setup I matched on "$USER.*ssh-agent$" and that works also
> > (i.e. ps|grep doesn't find the grep) but leaving out the $ doesn't work
Yes, clearly the same answer as above.
Thanks,
Niall
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