{"id":2175,"date":"2019-02-18T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2019-02-18T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:04:02","slug":"list-running-apps-process-name-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funk.co.nz\/blog\/technology\/list-running-apps-process-name-only","title":{"rendered":"List running apps by process name only in macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of searching, I finally just wrote my own expression to show all running processes with just the names that I can feed to killall say to exit.<\/p>\r\n<p>The command:<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>ps axc | sed \"s\/.*:..... \/\\\"\/\" | sed s\/$\/\\\"\/<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>The output:<\/p>\r\n<p>\"launchd\"<br \/>\"syslogd\"<br \/>\"UserEventAgent\"<br \/>\"uninstalld\"<br \/>\"kextd\"<br \/>\"fseventsd\"<br \/>\"mediaremoted\"<br \/>\"appleeventsd\"<br \/>\"systemstats\"<br \/>\"configd\"<br \/>\"powerd\"<br \/>\"openvpn-service\"<br \/>\"TeamViewer_Service\"<br \/>\"logd\"<br \/>\"keybagd\"<br \/>\"warmd\"<br \/>\"mds\"<br \/>\"iconservicesd\"<br \/>\"iconservicesagent\"<br \/>\"diskarbitrationd\"<br \/>\"backupd-helper\"<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>\"coreduetd\":<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of searching, I finally just wrote my own expression to show all running processes with just the names that I can feed to killall say to exit. 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