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Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Tennis Smith <tennis at cisco dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
- References: <001d01c424a1$aba6dab0$120a0a0a@amer.cisco.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tennis Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What I would like to do is very simple (I hope): Determine which Win
> applications are running and, if possible, what the names are in the
> title bars.
>
> How best can that be done? I'd prefer to use TCL.
>
> TIA,
> -Tennis
The Unix way ("ps") will work. I'm sure you can invoke it from TCL via
exec() (or, if you actually want to process the output, via open()). See
"ps --help" for the appropriate command-line arguments. This won't give
you the title bar info, though.
Igor
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