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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:09:23 +0200
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Possible bug in pgrep (procps)
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Bengt-Arne Fjellner, le Tue 18 Jul 2006 00:00:46 +0200, a écrit :
> pgrep from procps-3.2.6-1 when asking for an exact match with arguments seems to
> demand an extra space after the argument.
> See the following sequence.
> 
> No space after the f on the commandline
> $ emacs f&
> [1] 2072
> 
> without extra space
> $ pgrep  -x -f "emacs f"
> 
> with extra space after f
> $ pgrep  -x -f "emacs f "
> 2072
> 
> Bug or my misunderstanding ?

At least linux doesn't want the extra space:

¤ sleep 1h &
¤ pgrep -x -f "sleep 1h"
6974
7422
¤ pgrep -x -f "sleep 1h "

Samuel

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