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Re:What is fsck up to now? by linsomniac on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:39PM (#22609349)
Ooh, that's very cute! I usually throw a "| grep -v grep" on the end, but I'm gonna try to remember this.
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Re:What is fsck up to now? by JdeBP on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:46PM (#22611940)
Better to remember pgrep, instead of an incremental change that you'll find still has problem cases (such as matching usernames).

* http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#But_I.27m_on_so...

M. Wooledge's description of ps options is not quite accurate, but that is incidental to xyr main point.

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