Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice"

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice"
Date	2026-01-11 22:51 +0000
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:32:08 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:

> These two produce an off-by-one, right?

The bash version does since it also counts 'grep --color=auto watchdogd' 
along with the watchdogd process itself.  

improved version:

AmRunning() {
	ps aux | grep -v "grep" | grep $1 | wc -l
}


$ AmRunning firefox
11

That was an unexpected result since Firefox wasn't running. Further 
investigation revealed Tor was showing its roots

tor-browser/Browser/firefox.real

Kill Tor and

$ AmRunning firefox
0

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        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
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            Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-01-12 17:42 -0500
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