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

[Eric F Crist]

Sometimes, you need to add a few w's to the command to parse it  
properly:

ps auxwww | grep foo

Eric

On Mar 27, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Christoph Hammann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The first command you're looking for is ps aux | grep processname .  
> The second is apropos .
>
> HTH!
>
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> Tom Wolfe
>
> 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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