[TAG] Triggering one of several options with Juk and KHotkeys

[Ben Okopnik]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:57:00AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 07:39:17PM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> > ps aux|grep '[j]uk'
> > Will ignore the 'grep' line every time. Why? Well...
> 
> I'd forgotten this; handy.  Only works, of course, if the argument to
> grep is a literal.  Well, more accurately, it's even harder to
> understand (and possibly might break other things) if you put it in a
> variable...

You're right: it can be made to work but would Not Be Conducive to
Understanding. Something like

----------------------------------------------------------------
# YANETUT
first=${var:0:1}
last=${var:1}
ps ax|grep "[$first]$last"
----------------------------------------------------------------

Ugh.

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