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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 11:50:59 -0600
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Subject: Re: PID & WINPID
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On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Todd Poole wrote:
> $ ps -p myprogram

You cannot use "ps -p <random string>". As is clearly shown, "-p" is expecting
a process id, which is a number.

    -p, --process   show information for specified PID

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