This feature can also be avoided with a
clever use of
regular expressions. While grepping for a
string will return the
grep process as well, grepping for a
regexp probably won't.
tcsh% ps ax | grep "[t]csh"
850 pts/2 SW 0:00 tcsh
851 pts/1 SW 0:03 tcsh
1059 pts/3 SW 0:00 tcsh
1170 pts/4 S 0:05 tcsh
22558 pts/10 S 0:03 tcsh
31554 pts/6 SW 0:00 tcsh
24027 pts/21 S 0:01 tcsh
31280 pts/23 S 0:01 tcsh
6470 pts/5 S 0:00 tcsh