On 6/28/2017 11:58 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:53:03 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> On 6/28/2017 2:45 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 6/28/2017 2:12 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Everybody should hate Windows and Microsoft. What's not to hate? My
>>>> guess is that you wouldn't care much for Unix if you were forced to
>>>> use it with a endlessly buggy graphical interface that needed constant
>>>> fixin'.
>>>
>>> So you made a system that is better? I hear people complain all the
>>> time, yet none have made a better program. I'm sure they could or they
>>> would be happy to be able to get what is readily available.
>>
>> I find it funny dsi1 describes Unix as a "buggy graphical interface". LOL
>
> dsi1 is a computing supermassive black hole who thinks he's a type O
> blue giant star.
>
> Unix doesn't even HAVE a graphical interface. The operating system
> doesn't provide any sort of graphical display functions except for
> very low level access to the display adapters.
>
Exactly. Unix isn't "graphic" and was never intended to be.

>> Obviously he's never grepped for pids in his entire life.
>
> I've typed hundreds of thousands of Unix commands and I can't think of
> any situation where I've ever grep'ed for PIDs :-)
>
I had to do it sometimes at work in order to kill a process. Usually
something running in the background that needed to be shut down for one
reason or another.

> Most PIDS don't stick around long, but if I knew a current PID, a
> simple 'ps -fp <PID>' would probably tell me what I needed to know.
> Because it simpler than typing "ps -ef|grep <pid>".
>
> ObFood: After watching Master Chef tonight I had to make some late
> night scrambled eggs. The French style wet and creamy kind, served on
> a toasted English muffin with Romano cheese.
>
> -sw
>
Sounds tasty!

Jill