rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 31 January 2011 11:39:55 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Ane, cann you run "lsof | grep pid-of-rsync" if it hangs (where 
> pid-of-rsync is the pid of a rsync process of course)? This command will 
> give you all files rsync tries to attach (at the time you run lsof). If 
> there are more rsync processes, try grep -E "(pid1|pid2|pid3)" instead 
> of the simple grep.

I seem to be getting the syntax wrong:

lsof | grep -E (3180|3181|3183)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Tried a few variations, but not got it right.

Anne
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