On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:38:31PM -0700, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> > if ps -U $LOGNAME | grep realmutt > /dev/null
>
> Be careful about using grep to search the output of ps. For example
>
> $ ps ax | grep lemming
> 16004 tty1 S 0:00 grep lemming
>
> Y'see? Grep makes a match on its own process.
It works OK on AIX 3.2.5 ps. If you add the -f flag it finds the grep
line, but it does'nt without it.
OK, so maybe my script does'nt work on all systems, but it is worth
playing with to see if some set of ps flags works as required.
Cheers, Brian.
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