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		jeorgun on Oct 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Level Up Your Shell Game Why exactly do you love 'alias psgrep="ps aux \| grep"' ? What does it get you that pgrep doesn't (or, if you need more information, 'ps u `pgrep <name>`')?

bstpierre on Oct 24, 2013 [–]

I've worked on a lot of systems that don't have pgrep.

'ps aux | grep' works everywhere

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