Re: How to find out if an application is running

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Nandor
I just uploaded Mac::Apps::Launch. Now IsRunning() returns the PSN, instead of simple true/false (1/0). Here's a fun, simple, and efficient script to kill the Dock (which should relaunch immediately): use Mac::Apps::Launch 1.92; use Mac::Processes; use POSIX 'SIGTERM'; my $psn = Is

Re: How to find out if an application is running

2005-10-14 Thread Ted Zeng
I like these solution. Thanks. ted On 10/13/05 10:59 PM, "Peter N Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 20:02 -0700 13/10/05, Ted Zeng wrote: >> Here is the fun part: I made a killapp.pl script and >> Call it to kill Bridge with >> `killapp.pl Bridge ` >> >> And it kills itself. >> >> As it

ruminations on 'ps' commands

2005-10-14 Thread Jeremy Mates
* Peter N Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ps auxw | grep > > inevitably finds the search command unless you use a trick like the above, > or: > > ps auxw | grep | grep -v grep Or, utterly off topic, the clever regex method, which may run afoul of quoting rules in certain shells, but is qu