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From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 21 Mar 2010 15:53 On 2010-03-21 2:35 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: > I've never cared enough about awk to bother, myself. I guess I'm lazy > like that. : D There was a time in my life when I was pretty good at awk. I'd written some pretty nasty stuff using it. Now I can barely remember the basic syntax. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: David Empson on 21 Mar 2010 19:05 nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <michelle-2B7F79.05435421032010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > > > > I'm just trying to give the guy some options for a force quit of all > > > > > applications. CMD - Option - ESC is only available in 10.5 and 10.6. > > > > > > > > I believe that it is available in all versions of OS X. > > > > > > Are you sure that Select All is available? Not in Tiger on my > > > machine though possibly I miss something here? > > > > Select All is not available, but shift-click is. So you can click on the > > first item, shift-click on the last, and have all of them selected. > > not in the force-quit window it isn't, at least not in 10.4 or 10.5. The shift-click method works in 10.6. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 22 Mar 2010 01:24 On 2010-03-21 9:02 PM, Lewis wrote: > In message <80n8biFl01U1(a)mid.individual.net> Jeffrey > <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: >> kill -9 `ps x | awk '$4 ~ /\/Applications/ {print $1}'` > > Erm, are you sure about that?` > > that ps command returns nothing on my machines. Oops, that should be a "$5" instead of "$4" in the awk command. I miscounted columns. (I thought I had tested this, but because I didn't actually test with the "kill", I must have not copied and pasted what I actually tested. So I get (and this is pasted, so properly tested) % echo kill -9 `ps x | awk '$5 ~ /\/Applications/ {print $1}'` kill -9 68 234 238 240 357 362 368 369 370 371 372 376 379 536 779 785 817 864 2041 9256 12124 22197 28858 74761 74955 75636 80107 % Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: Nick Naym on 22 Mar 2010 04:12 In article 80od7jFhh5U1(a)mid.individual.net, Jeffrey Goldberg at nobody(a)goldmark.org wrote on 3/22/10 1:24 AM: > On 2010-03-21 9:02 PM, Lewis wrote: >> In message <80n8biFl01U1(a)mid.individual.net> Jeffrey >> <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > >>> kill -9 `ps x | awk '$4 ~ /\/Applications/ {print $1}'` >> >> Erm, are you sure about that?` >> >> that ps command returns nothing on my machines. > > Oops, that should be a "$5" instead of "$4" ... Inflation? ;) -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.2)
From: Warren Oates on 22 Mar 2010 08:00
In article <ho6mv0$kvt$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > My Finder is quit at this very moment. I set it to be quit via Cmd-Q via > Cocktail. > > Tres simple. How do you get it back? And why would you want to quit it (as opposed to relaunching)? -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer |