Re: Process Regexp Problems

[Brendan Strejcek]

Russell Adams wrote:

> 28856 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
>  1191 ?        S      0:01 /usr/bin/linux  [/usr/sbin/cron]
> 
> How can I specify to NOT match the one that begins with the linux
> prefix?

I would just write a really tight regex.

First, do:

    ps auxw | cat -vet

so you can see exactly what the ps listing will look like.

I suspect something like:

    "^root .*[0-9] /usr/sbin/cron$"

will work well.

-- Brendan