Easy(?) problem for shell script writers

[Ronald S Woan]

In article <1991May9.151138.21246 at uvm.edu> moore at emily.uvm.edu (Bryan Moore) writes:
>I want to do a 'ps | fgrep $1' where $1 is each of the above
>strings, but obviously the above is incorrect. 

ps | awk whatever | xargs -t -i fgrep {}

might do it...



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