Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one
> ps aux | grep [m]ingetty root 2381 0.0 0.0 7152 824 tty1 Ss+ Aug11 0:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 root 2382 0.0 0.0 7152 828 tty2 Ss+ Aug11 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 2383 0.0 0.0 7156 828 tty3 Ss+ Aug11 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 2384 0.0 0.0 7156 828 tty4 Ss+ Aug11 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 2385 0.0 0.0 7156 832 tty5 Ss+ Aug11 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 2410 0.0 0.0 7156 832 tty6 Ss+ Aug11 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
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Trick to avoid the form: grep process | grep - v grep Show Sample Output
13ps axu | grep [a]pache2 -
Get the PID of a process by name Show Sample Output
11pgrep command_name -
preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik) Show Sample Output
6ps -C command -
faster ;) but your idea is really cool
6ps -ef | grep c\\ommand -
This does the same thing as many of the 'grep' based alternatives but allows a more finite control over the output. For example if you only wanted the process ID you could change the command:
ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'If you wanted to kill the returned PID's:ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' | xargs -i kill {}Show Sample Output1ps -ef | awk '/process-name/ && !/awk/ {print}'
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ps axu | grep [a]pache2zsh: no matches found: [a]pache2zsh --versionzsh 4.3.17 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)