On 7/18/26 2:11 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Other than muscle memory for those who learned long before
pgrep was common, 'ps … | grep … | grep -v grep' is not the
ideal way to solve this problem anymore. :)

I first created that one-liner when I was doing phone support for an ISP. Without the second grep, you get two lines of response, whether you want that second one or not, and I got tired of callers reading them both back to me.
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