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> `grep` can be excluded from the output by putting square brackets around one character of the search pattern That's a great trick, thanks! I'm so used to add

> `grep` can be excluded from the output by putting square brackets around one character of the search pattern That's a great trick, thanks! I'm so used to adding '| grep -v grep' at the end of a 'ps | grep' command, your way is much nicer.

Symbiote 5y ago
On Linux, pgrep is probably what you need most of the time, or pkill.
- varenc 5y ago
  I like the `psgrep` tool which behaves much more like greping ps that pgrep does. And `psgrep` is actually just a bash script itself.