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----- Original Message -----
From: LENGARD Pascal OCISI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux-Newbie (Non Receipt Notification Requested IPM Return Requested)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Paul Murphy
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Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 12:17 AM
Subject: RE: Infinite Regression ?
> beleive me, i read all the mails that others send to you and i can tell
> you that the best way is the "grep -v grep " trick.
> counting the lines returned by "ps | grep" as suggested by someone will
> not work since there is a race condition.
> sometimes "ps | grep program" will return only the interesting line,
> sometimes it will return 2 lines. so counting does not work in all cases.
> i did not think of the "killall -0" trick, "grep program | grep -v grep"
> is better in the way that i tcan be used on every UNIX computer.
>
> hope this helps
> pascal
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 6:06 PM
> > To: Linux-Newbie
> > Subject: Infinite Regression ?
> >
> >
> > I am trying to write a script that tests if a certain program is
> > running, I thought to use :
> >
> > if ( ps x | grep "program_name" }
> >
> > but this will ALWAYS return TRUE [from grep]. How to deal with this??
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