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Development Tools Console Foundations Processes Killing Processes

Kristof Szilagyi
Kristof Szilagyi
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Posted by Kristof Szilagyi
Kristof Szilagyi
7,431 Points

ERROR: Garbage option. When I write: ps aux | grep "top"

Hi,

On win8 when I write ' ps aux | grep "top" ' to the console it says "ERROR: Garbage option", I am writing pipe character by using Ascii code 179 but I don't think this is the problem. Everything works fine in the console besides ofthis command.

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Windows 8 doesn't come with bash installed which is what the course you are taking is using. So unless you installed bash you have powershell installed which has some similar syntax to bash.

Kristof Szilagyi
Kristof Szilagyi
7,431 Points
Kristof Szilagyi
Kristof Szilagyi
7,431 Points

Hi,

The problem was that I used Ascii 179 ( │) instead of 124 ( | ). The two characters looked the same in the Ascii table. Now it works fine. Anyway, I keep in mind your comment, it might be useful later. Thank you.