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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: aranor on Jan 10, '04 11:51:28PM
Then remove the 'a' and just use ps ux. Why are you using the 'u' anyway, if you're just trying to get the PID? You don't need that extra info. In fact ps xc works even better, because it strips out the path info and just shows the command (i.e. Finder). And if you *just* want the PID if the Finder running for your own user, try ps xc | grep Finder | awk '{print $1}'

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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: biedawo on Jan 11, '04 01:34:53AM
awk has its own pattern matching functionality... ps xc | awk '/Finder/{print $1}' (although the hints to use killall or MacOSX built-in force-quit are probably better)

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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: aranor on Jan 11, '04 09:01:43AM

I never really got around to learning awk :) Maybe I should...



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