[vdr] Re: Feature Request: SVDRP command "DONTSLEEP"

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Guido Fiala wrote:
> 
> > if ps -A | grep [w]hatever > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> 
> does'nt this give always true, as the the grep returns the 
> line of this 
> commandline itself?
> 

This is why i wrote "[w]hatever". The square brackets (which are also
shown in the output of ps) prevent grep from finding itself (since the
regexp [w]hatever doesn't match itself).

Ciao Ulrich



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