grepping with ps

[Michael42]

If you use "ps -ef" and grep for a certain command how can you get the display to NOT show the grep command too?

Example: ps -ef|grep foo

It will of course show all the processes using "foo" but how can I filter out the grep process for foo from the output?

Thanks very much for your time guys,

Michael

 

[MikeLacey]

ps -ef|grep foo|grep -v grep Mike
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[Guest_imported]

or save a process and pass grep a regex

ps -ef|grep [f]oo

 

[bigoldbulldog]

Here's a related script I use to see all my (the user) processes without seeing the ps, script, and the associated awk commands.

This works in any shell for my version of HP-UX but will have to be tweaked for other shells and OS. No guarentees here.

#! /bin/sh
CMD=`basename $0`
ps -eaf | awk '
{
if(/'"`whoami`"'/){
if( $8 ~ /'"$CMD"'/ ){
cmd_pid=$2
nopr_cmd=i
}
line[i++]=$0
}
}
END {
printf( "%6s %-9s %4s %s\n", "PID", "TTY", "TIME", "COMMAND" )
for(j=0;j<i;j++){
$0=line[j]
# a(b+c)(d+c) -> a(c+bd)
if( j != nopr_cmd && ($3 != cmd_pid ||
($8 != &quot;awk&quot; && $8 != &quot;ps&quot; ))){
printf( &quot;%6s %-9s %4s %s\n&quot;, $2, $6, $7, substr($0,
idx=index($0, $8),
length($0) - idx + 1))
}
}
}'


Cheers,
ND

 

[Michael42]

All these suggestions on grep where great and helped me very much.

Thanks for you time guys!