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  • Reliably finding processes with ps by name
    Posted by Oliver on the 17th of July, 2011 in category Tech

    I imagine that there are two groups of people who might read this post:

    1. When you need to find a process by name, you run ps -ef or similar and pipe into grep processname.
    2. When you need to find a process by name, you run ps -C processname

    If you fall into the first category, you fail my interview tests. Perhaps you smugly fall into the second category, but surely you have seen this occur:

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