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Create a pidof command to find PID numbers easily
Authored by: adamjacobmuller on Jun 19, '03 08:54:52PM

not really, piping ps|grep is safe. I have been using linux for a decade and posix be dammed i have to re-learn commands all over again!
one of my favorite features is ps -C in linux this shows you all the proccess with the the specified name in darwin this has some obscure function that messed me up for two weeks i couldnt understand why it didn't work!!!!

so for you who is used to simply ps|grepping that's sometimes slower but better! becuse whether you move from darwin, to FreeBSD, to irix or linux or whatever i can assure you that ps and grep will still be present and will function in generally the same way (axuw commands generally are standardized at least)

I want to state so there is no confusion that this, someone who has used various unixes for a decade, love OSX any less! i love my little powerbook (12'). and i love the killer os that powers it. and critics be dammed even if microsoft cant make a decent os I happen to think that word is decent. and gimp will never live up to adobe photoshop. and ps2pdf never did as good a job as adobe acrobat! but at least i could type an entire document without the computer crashing, transform that 120mb tiff file, convert that 80page graphics intensive file to pdf without the computer crashing or locking up. but it was never the same. I missed that tactile response that windows gave me. I missed things looking good in linux. I reaized that things looking good took up too much processor power and i used the stripped down window manager now with my new powerbook i have the best of every world. Plus wireless networking that kicks butt! I will never abandon linux but at least I will never have to touch my mothers windows notebook again to get on that "supported browsers only" site.

got a wee bit off topic there... :-)



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