BusyBox Issue?

[David White]

Hello. Please forget and forgive my previous post. It suddenly occurred 
to me that the problem is with the pattern, not with grep. I hate to 
display my ignorance in public like this. The pattern should be X.*vnc 
to get the desired results. Sorry for the mistake.

David White wrote:
> Hello. Let me say in advance that I am no expert in these matters.
>
> Busy Box is installed on my Android phone and provides grep and pgrep on
> my device. And I note what seems to be an issue. If you look at the
> terminal output in the attached screen shot it appears the both pgrep
> and ps | grep are matching patterns incorrectly. The pattern is X*vnc
> and while this should indeed match the first process shown, I don't
> understand why it is matching the other two (which lack an X or even an
> x in their names).
>
> So maybe this is a problem in BusyBox?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> David
> Seattle, WA  USA
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