terminal goodness

Trying to add to my knowledge of Unix via the terminal window in OSX - here are some handy tools for troubleshooting a cranky mac. Thanks to Randy for showing me!

ps -ax|grep {app name}

will return information about the application, provided it is running, most importantly the PID. Knowing the PID you can execute the following

kill {PID}

perfoms an old school force quit

ps -axug

lists all process on the system currently holding a PID - doesn't mean the process is running though

top -i 1

pretty much the same as process explorer on the windows side (or the process tab in task manager) refreshes top process based on cpu% every second in this example



so there you go nothing ground breaking, but handy nuggets for the uniformed.

jason