pgrep is great, but note that you can still encounter this problem if you run pgrep in parallel -- it will never match its own process, but it will match other pgrep processes.

So for example if you have a script that uses `pgrep -f banana` to search for a "banana" process, and you run that script twice in parallel, pgrep might see the other pgrep process and think "banana" is running even though it isn't.

I was bitten by this :)