On 2017-06-22 21:29, mark lewis : Dropnine wrote:
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>  On 2017 Jun 21 11:50:38, you wrote to 6502en...@gmail.com:
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>  Dr> If the resulting list displays that it is still running, then kill it
>  Dr> by its PID.  Don't confuse the "grep tcpser" in the list as the tcpser
>  Dr> command, itself.
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> a little trick to avoid seeing the "grep" line in the output...
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>   ps -ef | grep [t]cpser
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Or just use "pgrep" which saves you the pipe and the tricks.

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