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Mar 06
2010
Just a quick change to my post on the bash function […] that I’ve been using. A small modification has greatly improved its usability: make the cancel option always be first in the menu. Just move “Cancel” before the […] bit. It’s a little odd that I didn’t do that to begin with…
fp () { #find and list processes matching a case-insensitive partial-match string ps Ao pid,comm|awk '{match($0,/[^\/]+$/); print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH… Nov 14
2009
This is a function from my OS X .bash_profile. ‘fk’ is short for Find and Kill, and it lets you do a quick search of your running processes for a case-insensitive partial match of the first parameter passed to it. It’s useful for quickly finding a process without worrying about its capitalization or full spelling, and without having to sift through (or manually grep) a long […] list.