Re: [Nolug] Bash backup script help

There is also:

$ ps -C <name-of-exe>

I'm not sure how portable this is however. In scripts, I use the 'grep
-v grep | grep <name-of-exe>' approach usually as well.

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-ray wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, B. Estrade wrote:
> 
>> if [ -n `ps -auxw | grep name_of_exe`  ]; then
> 
> Be careful with this, as the "grep name_of_exe" will also show up in the
> ps output, so this statement would always be true.  You need to exclude
> "grep" from ps output:
> 
>> if [ -n `ps -auxw | grep -v grep | grep name_of_exe`  ]; then
> 
> Someone also mentioned pgrep.  Redhat/Fedora also has /sbin/pidof. 
> pgrep is probably more standard though (at least on Linux/Solaris).
> 
> ray
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