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<Balatro> Electroly:  It died on me once and wouldn't restart.  I had to ps -aux or whatever the fuck it is and kill the process.  Then it started fine. <Electroly> ah, nothing good old `ps aux | grep Proteus | awk '{print $2 }' | xargs kill -9` won't fix. <Electroly> much better, that worked. * Gandalf stares at Electroly <Gandalf> And I thought I was a Unix dork. <Balatro> Yeah, it was so much less effort to do that then to type a command, quickly see the process and kill it by PID :) <Electroly> you are a unix dork <Electroly> Balatro: there were like 10 Proteus processes, dude. <Balatro> Funny, I had 1 ;) <Electroly> dunno where these all came from, but i killed them all. <Electroly> now all is well <Gandalf> Electroly: I understand ps, grep, and xargs. Explain how that awk thinger works, though? :) <Electroly> Gandalf: awk is pretty simple.  it treats the stdin as a bunch of columns <Electroly> and lets you reformat the output.  { print $n } is typical, where n is the column number to print out. <kurros> AWK AWK MOTHER FUCKER <Electroly> it uses whitespace as the column delimiter by default, but you can change that by some argument to it <Gandalf> ah, and in ps aux the PID is the second column, thus $2, right? <Electroly> yup <Electroly> you can do other stuff with awk, like awk '{ print "Whee!  The PID for " $10 " is " $2 "!" }' <Balatro> It makes me hot when you talk unix. <Electroly> rm -rf /home/Balatro <Balatro> That's /homo/Balatro, honey :)