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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to tell if a process is running? Post 302571202 by AusS2000 on Sunday 6th of November 2011 06:43:34 PM
Old 11-06-2011
Thought I had better report back on this.

Success!!!

Code:
#!/bin/sh
 
#checking to see if fmxdbc_listener exists and writing to a variable

ps -ax |grep '/fmxdbc_listen' |grep -v grep > /dev/null 2>&1

#echo "$checkfmxdbc"

if [ $? = "0" ]; then
	echo "fmxdbc_listener is still Running - `date`" >>  /checkfmxdbc.log
else
	echo "ERROR - fmxdbc_listener is NOT Running - `date`" >>  /checkfmxdbc.log
	cd /Applications/FileMaker\ Pro\ 11\ Advanced/Extensions/xDBC\ Support/fmxdbc_listener.bundle/Contents/MacOS/
	./fmxdbc_listener -u &
fi

Works as expected. Zombie processes be damned!

Thank you to all those that helped.
 

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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:
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