At 6:51 PM +0000 2/19/07, Steve Searle wrote: >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" >Content-Disposition: inline > >Around 01:20am on Monday, February 19, 2007 (UK time), Jean-Rene David >scrawled: > >> Another, shorter, way to do the same: >> >> ps auxw | grep '[p]rocessName' > >I like it, but can you explain why it works? Hint: this also works: ps auxw | grep 'p\rocessName' but this does not: ps auxw | grep '\processName' -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>