## TITLE: BASH - LIST RUNNING PROCESSES (PS)
## OS: MAC OS 10.6.X
## LAST DOC MODIFY: 2011-11-18

$ ps -axc

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#!/bin/bash

process_name=rsync
process_number=`ps axc | grep $process_name | awk '{print $1}'`


if [[ "$process_number" -ne 0 ]]; then
	echo ""
	echo "$process_name not found"
	exit -1
fi

echo ""
echo "$process_name is pid# $process_number"
exit 1

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## FLAGS

-a    Display information about other users processes as well as your own.
      Will skip processes which do not have a controlling terminal, unless -x option is specified

-x    When displaying processes matched by other options, include processes which do not have a
      controlling terminal. This is the opposite of -X

-X    When displaying processes matched by other options, skip processes which do not have a
      controlling terminal

-c    Change command column output to just contain executable name, not full command line

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