Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 21:41 UTC
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2005-07-06
ps xu | grep konqueror | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' |xargs kill -9
in order to make bash and linux look hard to use. This is a company that is committed to interoperability when they have a video like that featured on their "Compare" homepage? Right. Lets Get the Facts.
I think it's just a bad demo possibly due to the presenter's lack of familliarity with either shell. Even the Powershell examples weren't the most succinct methods of accomplishing the given tasks. For example "spps -n iexplore" could've been used to kill all instances of IE (spps is an alias for stop-process, as is kill), and the Computer Browser service could've been disabled with "set-service browser -s disabled".
In any case, he should've tried to ensure parity for the chosen methods, such as using "gps iexplore | spps" in comparison to the kill method he used.