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

[David Restall - System Administrator]

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 !

Have you tried :-

% man pgrep

:-)


TTFN


Dave
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