Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice"

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On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:14:49 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    def AmRunning(ss) :
>      return os.popen("ps ax").read().count(ss) # get, unwrap, count

.bashrc
AmRunning() {
	ps aux | grep $1 | wc -l
}

$ AmRunning brave
32

Before Linux distros mostly switched to bash I used tcsh.  You could do a 
lot more with alias without having to write a function.

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Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-10 20:14 -0500
  Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-11 07:31 +0000
    Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-11 02:45 -0500
      Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-01-11 20:31 +0000
        Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-11 18:12 -0500
          Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-12 05:24 +0000
          Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-01-12 05:57 +0000
      Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-11 22:31 +0000
        Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-01-12 06:02 +0000
          Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-12 08:05 +0000
    Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-11 10:32 +0000
      Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-11 22:51 +0000
        Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-11 19:31 -0500
          Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-12 07:05 +0000
            Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-12 17:42 -0500
        Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-11 23:57 +0000
          Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-12 08:07 +0000

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