Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:50:38 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@x.it.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running Message-ID: <201212042050.qB4Koc70086364@x.it.okstate.edu>
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Robert Bonomi writes: > 'man 2 kill' tells all. I believe that is the first or second time I have used Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ### >/dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output ps -p 54321 >/dev/null && date ran the date command if there was a process with that number and produced nothing if no process 54321 existed. Martin
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