[TAG] Recording OpenCourseWare free lectures

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Thomas Adam wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:20:55 +0100
>"Jimmy O'Regan" <jimregan at o2.ie> wrote:
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>>I'd update that tip for Mozilla and its tabbed browsing:
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>>#!/bin/bash
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>>if [ -n "`ps ux|grep 'mozilla'`" ]
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>You have a problem there... that'll return also the PID entry (amongst
>other information) for the grep process that just ran also. You can
>filter this out, with grep, such that:
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>```
>[ -n "`ps aux | grep mozilla | grep -v 'grep mozilla'`" ]
>'''
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Ah, yes. Good catch.

>For those on GNU/Linux systems, this is perhaps easier:
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>```
>[ -n "$(pidof mozilla)" ]
>'''
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This, however, might not work on many systems, as 'mozilla' is usually a 
shell script which launches 'mozilla-bin'