Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· freyes12345

Avoid returning your command when grepping ps output

To avoid returning the command you ran when grepping through PS output in *NIX systems enclose the first character in brackets. For example instead of running:

ps -ef | grep 'foo'

and having the command you ran showing in the results run:

ps -ef | grep '[f]oo'