Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advice"

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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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