Computer touching incompetence
What is the best way to circumvent that ps ax | grep something also will include the grep process itself?
Computer touching incompetence
Just discovered another problem in my logic 
I wanted to write a script waitfor that keeps grepping for a command and then beeps a few times when it's done
Where the syntax would be e.g. waitfor sleep 10 to grep for a process sleep 10
But, of course, invoking waitfor sleep 10 creates another process with sleep 10 in the name
Although... now that I'm typing this out, I could use $$ to get the process ID of the current process and suppress it in ps
re: Computer touching incompetence
@vaporeon_ do you not have psutils on this system? pgrep specifically?
re: Computer touching incompetence
@aescling I have it, but it doesn't solve this problem
pgrep can prevent the grep itself from appearing in the output
But it can't prevent my script from which I invoke pgrep from appearing in the output if I invoked waitfor sleep 10
re: Computer touching incompetence
@vaporeon_ if you are willing to search fur exactly a specific arglist there’s pgrep -f -x
