One trick I learned from a UNIX greybeard in my junior days before pgrep was widely avaialble is: ps auxw | grep [p]rocessname and it will eschew the grep proce

One trick I learned from a UNIX greybeard in my junior days before pgrep was widely avaialble is: ps auxw | grep [p]rocessname and it will eschew the grep process in the list.