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Re:Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ... by Despite on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:48PM (#2471545)
Wow, that's certainly one way to do it. I'm still not seeing an issue with 'grep -v grep'.
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Re:Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ... by smcdow on Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:40PM (#2471756) 

  ps -ef | grep foo | grep -v grep
Will fail if foo="grep"
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Re:Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ... by smcdow on Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:39PM (#2471749)
Drop it in your .bashrc and just type "psg foo"
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