man pidof

Mike M wrote:

I want to monitor the existance of a process. All I ever know is the name of the process. I came up with the following:

$ ps -C process_cmd_name > temp
$ ls -l temp

if temp size is 0 then process does not exist else it does exist

I was going to use the getsize function in the os.path module in Python for the ls function above.

Anybody think of another way to accomplish this?

Thanks

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