[X-Unix] Command to find if a certain app is running?

[Christoph Hammann]

Hi,

The first command you're looking for is ps aux | grep processname .  
The second is apropos .

HTH!

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Am 27.03.2009 um 06:42 schrieb Jerry Krinock <jerry at ieee.org>:

> Does anyone know if there is a command to find if a certain app is  
> running?
>
> I know one way to do this would be via osascript/AppleScript,
>
>   tell application "System Events" set allApps to every application  
> process
>
> and then parse the list returned but I'd like to avoid the backslash- 
> escape hell of osascript if possible.
>
> Is there a command-line interface to System Events?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry Krinock
>
> P.S.  More generally, is there a way to search for "a command that  
> will do XYZ" on OS X?  Example: Earlier today, I wanted to read/ 
> write user preferences but had difficulty remembering the command  
> name 'defaults'.
>
>
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