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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [BASH] xclock/xcalc/xterm...process question? Post 302294238 by rikxik on Wednesday 4th of March 2009 10:19:44 PM
Old 03-04-2009
This will get you started:
Code:
progname="xclock"
username=`id|cut -d\( -f2|cut -d\) -f1`
running=`ps -fu $username|grep "$progname"|grep -v grep`
if [ ! -z "${running}" ] ; then
    echo "$progname already running [$running]"
else
    $progname &
fi

 

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

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EXIT CODE

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AUTHOR

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