Grep help

[DaMasta]

Writing a shell script. Need some grep help.
I wanted to see if had I an ices stream running. I ran ps -ef | grep ices. It found the ices stream as well as something with the word services in it. What can I do to only get the ices stream?

[kabus]

Try grep -w to match only whole words.

[ape]

try `ps -ef | grep -E "\bices\b"`

[DaMasta]

Awesome guys, thanks.