On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, AthlonRob wrote: > Anyway, I recently learned of pgrep. It's an excellent way to figure > out if something is running or not. pgrep outputs the PID of anything > matching the regex you give it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pgrep distccd > 4388 > 10995 > 11006 > 11260 > 11292 > 11334 > 11348 > 11368 > 11372 > 11437 > 11455
Which is the same as 'pidof', with the difference that pidof does a full string-match and not a regexp-match I guess. In most cases you want the first anyway. pidof is usually used by the sysv-scripts. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc
