how about 'strace vlc' ?? ;) just for variety
On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:43 PM Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 07/07/2019 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way > >> to get its attention? > > > > ps aux | grep vlc | grerp -v grep > > > > will do what you want. I have this as a one-liner shell script because > it > > comes in handy more often than you'd expect. > > From the "there's more than one way to do it" file... > > You can use pgrep to do this too. I typically use it with > the -l option to output both the PID and the process name. > > Before I knew about pgrep (or before it was around -- since > I'm getting old), I'd have skipped the grep -v grep by using > brackets around a single character in the first grep > pattern, e.g.: > > ps aux | grep vl[c] > > Not that any of this is helpful for the issue at hand. ;) > > -- > Todd > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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