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Utility

Converters, helpers, and data plumbing.

⚙vNumberEndPIDQuit a program using its PID (Process ID) on macOS and Linux It is possible to use the following terminal command to list a specific program's PID value % ps aux | grep safari vfx 10239 0.0 0.0 408637584 1760 s000 S+ 400.00 grep safari You can see a list of running programs and their PID values in the terminal using the "top" utility 540 total, 3 running, 537 sleeping, 2455 threads 1624 Load Avg 2.1% user, 2.48% sys, 95.50% idle SharedLibs 79919 total, 3430M resident, 570M private, 2089M shared. PhysMem 204T vsize, 3823M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts. Networks 14481172/7542M in, 10866206/9338M out. Disks39.13 17 3 1775- 220M- 9600K- 7792K 171 1 10555 top 5.2 0003.48 6/1 1 258+ 44M 15M 1664K 466 1 10239 Safari 1.4 00:31.49 6 2 514 62M 0B 0B 10239 1 It is also possible to see programs and their PID values in the macOS "Activity Monitor.app" utility. In the top right corner of the Activity Monitor window you can type in the name of the program in the search field to filter the results in the view down to what matters.