grep command cannot match with a very long string
Issue
- Running processes by "ps aux | grep "long string", grep does not show matched string.
- The "long string" includes regular expression such as period and so on.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 or earlier
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
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