Answer by ceremcem for How to determine whether a process is running or not...
None of the "simple" solutions worked for me because the binary I need to check is not installed system-wide, so I have to check with path, which in turn requires using ps -ef | grep approach:...
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## bash ## function to check if a process is alive and running: _isRunning() { ps -o comm= -C "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -x "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 } ## example 1: checking if "gedit" is running...
View ArticleAnswer by user7449824 for How to determine whether a process is running or...
#!/bin/bash while [ true ]; do # Endless loop. pid=`pgrep -x ${1}` # Get a pid. if [ -z $pid ]; then # If there is none, ${1} & # Start Param to background. else sleep 60 # Else wait. fi done
View ArticleAnswer by Wayne Workman for How to determine whether a process is running or...
I found that the accepted answer posted by @John Vrbanac did not work for me, and that the answer posted by @geirha doesn't answer the original question. John Vrbanac's solution didn't work to check if...
View ArticleAnswer by Dominic for How to determine whether a process is running or not...
isProcessRunning() { if [ $(pidof $1) > /dev/null ]; then retval='true'; else retval='false'; fi; echo $retval; } isProcessRunning geany true
View ArticleAnswer by Martin Monperrus for How to determine whether a process is running...
Using start-stop-daemon: /sbin/start-stop-daemon --background --make-pidfile --pidfile /tmp/foo.pid -S --startas /usr/bin/program -- arg1 arg2 It works as normal user.
View ArticleAnswer by yuvilio for How to determine whether a process is running or not...
Riffing on @rommel-cid's idea, you can use pidof with the || (||) to run a command if the process does not exist and && to run something if the process does exist, thus creating a quick...
View ArticleAnswer by Rommel Cid for How to determine whether a process is running or not...
I usually have a pidof -x $(basename $0) on my scripts to check if it's already running.
View ArticleAnswer by geirha for How to determine whether a process is running or not and...
Any solution that uses something like ps aux | grep abc or pgrep abc are flawed. Why? Because you are not checking if a specific process is running, you are checking if there are any processes running...
View ArticleAnswer by Zuul for How to determine whether a process is running or not and...
This is what I use: #!/bin/bash #check if abc is running if pgrep abc >/dev/null 2>&1 then # abc is running else # abc is not running fi In plain English: if 'pgrep' returns 0, the process is...
View ArticleAnswer by John Vrbanac for How to determine whether a process is running or...
A bash script to do something like that would look something like this: #!/bin/bash # Check if gedit is running # -x flag only match processes whose name (or command line if -f is # specified) exactly...
View ArticleAnswer by drake01 for How to determine whether a process is running or not...
First thing that came to my mind for your problem: ps aux | grep -i abc will show the details of the process if its running. You may match the number of lines or time for which its running and compare...
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How can I determine if a process is running or not and then have a bash script execute some stuff based on that condition? For example: if process abc is running, do this if it is not running, do that.
View ArticleAnswer by Alberto Salvia Novella for How to determine whether a process is...
By pid:pgrep [pid] >/dev/nullBy name:pgrep -u [user] -x [name] >/dev/null"-x" means "exact match".
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