meaning of this ps aux output

I was not sure if I am running named. So I did the following:

$ ps aux | grep named
root 6613 0.0 0.0 13588 920 pts/2 S+ 23:12 0:00 grep --color=auto named

what this output exactly means?

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This means that no named process was running. The reason why grep shows up is because it was executing while ps was started. To add headers, and avoid adding grep to the output, use:

$ ps u -C named
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

As you can see, I do not have named running. You can add the h option to hide this header as in:

$ ps uh -C named

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