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hi all!

This script is no long maintained, however i do have a friend who has made a far better solution to this problem!

please see https://github.com/totallynotinteresting/crossover for more info :)

if possible could you please star his repo too?

mingtsay commented Jan 26, 2026

In case who needs the alternative pidof version with ps, awk, xargs commands:

pidof() {
  ps -ax -o pid= -o ucomm= | awk -v proc="$1" 'tolower($2) == tolower(proc) {print $1}' | xargs
}

Refs: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/801103/689392

Warning: pidof has been deprecated because it has a removed upstream repository! It will be disabled on 2026-01-12.

Full output when running brew install pidof command:

~$ brew install pidof
==> Fetching downloads for: pidof
Warning: pidof has been deprecated because it has a removed upstream repository! It will be disabled on 2026-01-12.
✔︎ Bottle Manifest pidof (0.1.4)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Downloaded   13.6KB/ 13.6KB
✔︎ Bottle pidof (0.1.4)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Downloaded    5.3KB/  5.3KB
==> Installing pidof
==> Pouring pidof--0.1.4.arm64_sequoia.bottle.2.tar.gz
🍺  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pidof/0.1.4: 5 files, 40.8KB
==> Running `brew cleanup pidof`...
Disable this behaviour by setting `HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1`.
Hide these hints with `HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS=1` (see `man brew`).

KissesKloset commented Jan 28, 2026

@CladStriffe @adilutp Hello, I have updated this script to work once more! I've also included a bit to refresh your bottles for you! Hip hip hooray! curl: bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Prexry/evil-crossover/refs/heads/main/refresh.sh)

it says preserving original CrossOver -> CrossOver.origin
mv: rename CrossOver to CrossOver.origin: Operation not permitted