Re: funny bug

[Austin Kurahone <austin@example.com>]

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 ;)
> 
> 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.
> 
> And `ps -ef | grep '[pP]rogname'' will not.

I suppose that's simpler than adding "| grep -v grep".

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