[kwlug-disc] Question about `ps` and `grep`

[Raymond Chen]

I use ripgrep <https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep> locally, which has
better regex support, IMO.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 14:24 John Van Ostrand <john at vanostrand.com> wrote:

> Me too. I'm stuck on ps -ef which always gets me when I'm on my pfSense
> firewall (NetBSD based.) I started to use pkill a while ago, but I do
> rarely kill processes and often after a top where I can see the PID anyway.
> I know about pgrep, but I still ps -ef | grep ...
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 12:49 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Oh, that's clever. What I do instead is `ps aux | grep  tmux | grep -v
>> grep`.
>>
>> That is what I have been doing for decades too.
>>
>> Though I use ps -ef rather than aux, because I learned UNIX on SysV
>> systems, not the BSD lineage.
>>
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