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Commandline 101: Getting a Grip on Grep

Mar 10, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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please use pgrep, pkill

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/11/2009 - 13:22.

Please use
pgrep
instead of
ps aux | grep [s]omething

The same with pkill

Thanks

Just examples

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Wed, 03/11/2009 - 13:39.

I was just thinking of quick examples for the uses of grep. But thanks for the pgrep/pkill tips. :)

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