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Comment by dfc | Hacker News Reader

Whats up with the "[f]" in your grep command?

    grep '[f]sck'

It keeps the grep command itself from showing up in the output.

Ooh, that's very cute! I usually throw a "| grep -v grep" on the end, but I'm gonna try to remember this.

Better to remember pgrep, instead of an incremental change that you'll find still has problem cases (such as matching usernames).

M. Wooledge's description of ps options is not quite accurate, but that is incidental to xyr main point.