Even in the TRON future they still have the problem that "ps aux | grep" includes the grep itself.

[th@social.v.st]

Even in the TRON future they still have the problem that "ps aux | grep" includes the grep itself.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@th That and xargs -0 are my least favorite things about typing any command line.

function grepp() { grep "$@" | \fgrep -v 'grep '; }

[desantis@mastodon.bida.im]

@jwz @th I feel this pain, which is why when I don't want to see `grep` in output, I do something like: `ps aux|awk '!/grep/'`. This is also a big middle finger to those that say "AWK is an old and useless language, do it in jq", or some other nonsense...

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@desantis @th I guess the cool kids are saying "use pgrep" but I've never gotten around to trying to get in that habit.

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@jwz @desantis @th

Whatever UNIX I was using in 1996 didn’t have pgrep and as such I will never use it.

Same reason why I do “gzip - dc | tar xf -“…tar didn’t have a z flag back then and thus it never will.

[mat@friendica.exon.name]

@jwz @th @rk @desantis There has been no innovation in IT since 1996. You and I are why.