Chris Rees wrote:
[ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] && (echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC
DONE" kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
Not always going to work. For example,
[ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init
1 ? Ss 0:39 init [2]
13421 pts/1 R+ 0:00 grep init
Also if you use its pid, 1, you get a whole bunch of uninteresting
processes as you're grepping for "1" ;)
[ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep 1 | wc -l
94
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