grep | grep | grep .... better way ?

[dave selby]

Hi,

I am using a grep sequence of ..

ps ax | grep motion | grep -v motion_watchdog.sh | grep -v grep

is there a way for grep to be used without re-calling it with seperate
-v's ? I dimly recal there is but man grep left me with a headache :)

The above returns a true/false depending if script 'motion'  is
running - ignoreing motion_watchdog & the grep called by grep motion !


Dave



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