Re: Retrieve "ps -ef" strings using regex

You are taking the full result of ps in a single string, checking if there is a match and then printing the entire string. This results in printing the entire result if there is at least a match.

What you want to do is to split the string in an array of lines and then check & print each of them.

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Re^2: Retrieve "ps -ef" strings using regex by linuxer (Curate) on Aug 27, 2008 at 19:49 UTC
instead of reading the result into a scalar and split it afterwards, you could assign the result of the backticks to an array. `my @lines = qx{ command \| grep what };`	[reply] [d/l]