Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 07/07/2019 07:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> How can I find its process number to try and kill it or any better way
>> to get its attention?
>
> ps aux | grep vlc | grerp -v grep
>
> will do what you want.  I have this as a one-liner shell script because it
> comes in handy more often than you'd expect.

From the "there's more than one way to do it" file...

You can use pgrep to do this too.  I typically use it with
the -l option to output both the PID and the process name.

Before I knew about pgrep (or before it was around -- since
I'm getting old), I'd have skipped the grep -v grep by using
brackets around a single character in the first grep
pattern, e.g.:

    ps aux | grep vl[c]

Not that any of this is helpful for the issue at hand. ;)

--
Todd
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