On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few > hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect > whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it > launches the daemon first and then activates. From the command line, the > following returns the correct exit codes: > > if ps -A |grep -q "[x]screensaver"; then xscreensaver-command -activate > else xscreensaver& xscreensaver-command -activate; fi > > However, if I put that exact line into a shell script and run it, the if > ALWAYS gets evaluated as true. Any ideas?
It Works For Me (TM). As someone else has asked, which shell are you
using? This works for me in bash 2.05a.0(1)-release
(i386-pc-linux-gnu).
<the-stupid-question>
Maybe you always have xscreensaver running?
</the-stupid-question>
Of course you don't, do you? Cull the -q and check.
Regards,
Tom
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