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You might already know about the grep command in Linux, which searches for a pattern, and then prints the matching text in output. What if the requirement is to apply this kind of processing to fetch select information about processes currently running in the system?
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By: prabeen
Q2 pgrep -c option is an invalid option.
By: dlwilson88
-c, --count Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching processes. When count does not match anything, e.g. returns zero, the command will return non-zero value.run by itself it will return “0”$ pgrep -cv [$USER]
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gave me "335"