[LA.pm] app_running status to perl

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Benjamin <pete at peterbenjamin.com> writes:

Peter> At 07:49 PM 10/31/2006, David Heayn wrote:
>> I'm currently trying to check if firefox is running before I edit 
>> pref files with perl (mac 10).

Peter> This should work, and be portable as well.

Peter> my @so = `ps aux`;
Peter> my @firefox = grep( //, @so );

Did you mean to put something in those //?  Doesn't make sense otherwise.

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