Quick grep/egrep question!

[gringomike]

Hi All,

What is the grep/egrep command to search for 2 patterns in a "ps -ef" command?

I want to search for all occurances of "pattern 1" and "pattern 2" on the same line.

I thought it was the following but it doesn't work:-(

ps -ef |grep -e 'pattern 1 -e pattern 2'


Help!

Thanks

GM

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:

ps -ef | grep 'pattern 1' | grep 'pattern 2'

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[gringomike]

Thanks for the reply but this doesn't work either:-(

Any other ideas?

GM

 

[dickiebird]

You want :
ps -ef | egrep "pattern 1|pattern 2"

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[PHV]

dickiebird, your solution will matches all lines with either pattern, not those with the 2 on the same line.
gringomike, can you post an example of your ps -ef listing, the 2 patterns you search for and the expected result ?

 

[dickiebird]

PH - you're right - I mis-read the problem !
the answer, as you right posted :
ps -ef | grep pattern1 | grep pattern2
But why doesn't it work for gringomike ?

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[gringomike]

Thanks for the replies!

The solution was ps -ef | egrep "pattern 1|pattern 2" as posted by dickiebird!

My apologies for not been particularly clear but this is exactly what I was after!

Thanks again!

GM

 

[PHV]

Eh eh gringomike, don't know the diff between AND and OR?

 

[gringomike]

It's Monday morning - give me a break!