grep question: how determine if the process is runing

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Donatas <fetdonatas at gmail.com> wrote:
> the easiest way to do so is using: ps aux | grep process_name
> but the problem is that ubuntu 9.10 desktop shows me two processes:
> 1 is the one i need, and the 2nd is the grep process was used when i was
> looking forward to find out my process state.
If you don't want to install pgrep as suggested in an other mail:

ps aux|grep -v grep | grep process_name

I'm sure there are better ways of doing this :)
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