This is so simple it’s just great 🙂
Solution: use regex in your grep so the grep itself doesn’t show up in the results.
Example:
[vagrant@london kafka]$ ps aux |grep kafka vagrant 5172 0.8 30.3 3178252 309428 ? Sl 07:00 0:06 java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -server -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=20 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=35 -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xloggc:/var/log/kafka/kafkaServer-gc.log -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dkafka.logs.dir=/var/log/kafka -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/etc/kafka/log4j.properties -cp :/usr/bin/../share/java/kafka/*:/usr/bin/../share/java/confluent-support-metrics/*:/usr/share/java/confluent-support-metrics/* io.confluent.support.metrics.SupportedKafka /vagrant/config/kafka0.properties vagrant 5824 0.0 0.0 103316 836 pts/0 R+ 07:13 0:00 grep kafka <<-- Oh no! [vagrant@london kafka]$ [vagrant@london kafka]$ ps aux |grep [k]afka root 5172 0.8 29.6 3178252 302472 ? Sl 07:00 0:04 java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -server -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=20 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=35 -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xloggc:/var/log/kafka/kafkaServer-gc.log -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dkafka.logs.dir=/var/log/kafka -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/etc/kafka/log4j.properties -cp :/usr/bin/../share/java/kafka/*:/usr/bin/../share/java/confluent-support-metrics/*:/usr/share/java/confluent-support-metrics/* io.confluent.support.metrics.SupportedKafka /vagrant/config/kafka0.properties [vagrant@london kafka]$