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  | grep '[o]s12'

would have filtered out the grep process from the ps output. :)

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It is a futuristic, more intelligent version of grep that understands the context in which it runs, and automatically filters itself out when it processes the output of ps ;-)

Or maybe there was an alias to grep that was 'grep -v grep | grep $*' or something like that.

And they use ack for File searching cuz it's way better.

http://jtnimoy.net/178/TRON_GFX_BR_07.JPG seems to indicate plain old grep, not futuristic intelligent grep.

Trivia: These /dev/.udev paths will most likely disappear from Linux systems soon due to http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/, bookending the timeframe in which that system would have been set up.

When I saw that image, the first thing that came to mind was pgrep from the procps package. Using pkill would have crunched it all down to one line. Too bad they didn't use that.

However, I must admit it did look pretty cool as-is.

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