Re: How to tell if a certain program is running?

You could use pgrep which will return nothing if the process doesn't
exist and if it does, then it will return the process id(s).

Cheers,

Zac

Craig Hagerman wrote:
I am wondering if there is a simple way to programatically tell if a
given program is running. I want to write a bash script to check if a
program is running, then if not start it.

My first idea was to try to return grep the output from 'ps ax' but
even if a program isin't running grep will return the request you just
made. I am sure there is a more elegant way I don't know about.

Craig



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