On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:27:17AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images.
>
> Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard
> output and I can then use this information to kill the program.
> Certainly it must be possible to combine these steps into a single
> command line but my efforts to do so have all failed. Would some pro at
> scripting please set me straight?
>
> Tom
>
(from my old scripts, I found these lines:)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
if [ -z `pidof iceape-bin` ]; then ## (returned zero)
echo "IceApe not running"
fi
...
if [ -n `pidof iceape-bin` ]; then ## (returned non-zero)
echo "IceApe is running"
fi
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
hope this might improve your control
Wilko
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