Hi,
The meaing of ^[0-9] is to exclude the characters specified in the [..], but what is the meaning of ^[0-9][0-9]*$.
The expression is used to get the process information from /proc , it lists all the PIDs of all running processes with some appended text.
but could not understand the meaning.
Actually:
[^0-9]
excludes characters.
^
at the start means the start of the string.
^[0-9][0-9]*$
means a string starting with 0-9, followed by any amount of 0-9's (and nothing else).
ohhh! i understand now,all the directories in /proc are started with a number for the running processes and others to store system information, so they extracting information from only running processes.
Thank a bunch pritaeas.
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