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> From: Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: G3-5 List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 4:57:08 PM
> Subject: showing process running in 10.4 via the terminal
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> If you open applications in the gui.. say textedit and mail and
> excel.. is there any way to view these process via the terminal... is
> there a way to kill them via the terminal or start them from the
> terminal?
>
>
As said in the previous post run the command "top" (without quotes). This will
give you a list showing all processes running and their PID number
To kill a particular process or application find the PID (process ID) three
digit number associated with it.
Then issue a command like (for this example) "kill -9 222" (without quotes)
where 222 is the actual PID three digit number of the app or process you want
to kill and press enter
Note: unless you use sudo you can only kill applications you own, that is,
running under your account.
Another way to kill major app's like Textedit, Mail, Excel is to just hit the
option-Command-Esc keys to bring up the "Force Quit Applications" window and
kill the offending app from there avoiding Terminal all together. --glen
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