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Note the double space in bash's error message before "grep": that probably means you've typed an unbreakable space (AltGr+space), which can happen quite easily if your keyboard requires AltGr to produce the pipe symbol.

Try dropping the spaces around the pipe symbol:

ps aux|grep xscreensaver
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