Author: Leo Date: To: Simon Reap CC: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Pipe issues
Simon Reap wrote: >
> I would put the grep string in single quotes - anacron may be messing up
> the trailing $
>
> (BTW, did anyone else read the subject of this email and assume it was
> carrying on the armoured ethernet thread?)
>
That didn't help either, but it did give me an idea. I did a ps -ef
while anacron was getting my script to run and noticed this:
grep -v remaining\s*$
without quotes, so I've now changed my script to try:
program | grep -v \"remaining\\s*$\"
and
program | grep -v \'remaining\\s*$\'
which means ps -ef gives
grep -v "remaining\s*$"
and
grep -v 'remaining\s*$'
However it still doesn't work when run from anacron :(
