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Re: ps command to show just running apps?

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In article <mhbrdi$egl$1@news.datemas.de>,
 Alan Baker <email@domain.com> wrote:

> On 2015-04-23 22:05:14 +0000, Jack Shown said:
> 
> > Is there a ps command that could be used at the bash command line to 
> > show just those apps that are running (rather than every process)?   
> > Thanks.
> 
> What is the difference between "just those apps that are running" and 
> "every process"?
 
*EVERYTHING* running on your Mac - whether you're aware that it exists 
or not - is a "process". But not all processes are applications.

*IN GENERAL*, if it's a faceless (no user-visible interface) thing that 
runs in the background, it's "just" a process. If it has an interface 
that "Joe User" can grab onto and do something with directly (as opposed 
to working with it indirectly through another program) then it's more 
correct to call it an "application".

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ps command to show just running apps? Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2015-04-23 15:05 -0700
  Re: ps command to show just running apps? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-23 18:22 -0400
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-24 09:20 -0400
  Re: ps command to show just running apps? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-04-23 15:23 -0700
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-23 19:20 -0400
      Re: ps command to show just running apps? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-04-24 11:01 -0400
        Re: ps command to show just running apps? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-24 14:29 -0400
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2015-04-23 18:38 -0700
      Re: ps command to show just running apps? Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-23 19:18 -0700
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-04-23 18:48 -0700
  Re: ps command to show just running apps? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-23 19:14 -0400
  Re: ps command to show just running apps? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-04-23 18:38 -0500
  Re: ps command to show just running apps? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-04-24 12:13 +1200
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2015-04-23 21:07 -0700
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-24 07:26 +0000
    Re: ps command to show just running apps? stk.usenet@haller-berlin.de (Stefan Haller) - 2015-04-24 10:38 +0200

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