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There's a trivial way to get around ps|grep finding itself, though: 
$ ps aux | grep [P]ROGRAM
$

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Re^3: running program?
by Fletch (Bishop) on May 25, 2006 at 03:35 UTC

    Note that you may need to quote the brackets to keep them from being interpreted or eaten by your shell. 

    $ ps xuaw | grep '[p]rogram'
$

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