From: bowman@montana.com

On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:14:49 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    def AmRunning(ss) :
>      return os.popen("ps ax").read().count(ss) # get, unwrap, count

.bashrc
AmRunning() {
	ps aux | grep $1 | wc -l
}

$ AmRunning brave
32


Before Linux distros mostly switched to bash I used tcsh.  You could do a
lot more with alias without having to write a function.

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