1.run firefox (am using linux mint 17 in virtual machine vbox) version 28.0

2.start xterm
3.ps -e | grep firefox | cut -f 2
this should be the equivalent of ps -C firefox -o pid=
actual:
 2366 ?        00:02:53 firefox
expected:
 2366

 
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IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (note: they will say GB or MB or KB or TB when it is IEC Units!):
[KiB] [MiB] [GiB] [TiB]
[2^10B=1,024^1B=1KiB]
[2^20B=1,024^2B=1,048,576B=1MiB]
[2^30B=1,024^3B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB]
[2^40B=1,024^4B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB]
[2^50B=1,024^5B=1,125,899,906,842,624B=1PiB]
SI Units: Hard disk industry disk size measurements:

[kB] [MB] [GB] [TB]
[10^3B=1,000B=1kB]
[10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB]
[10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB]
[10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB]
[10^15B=1,000,000,000,000,000B=1PB]