Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > because qseek is a perl script. Is there any way that I can get output > of the running processes that will include the text, 'qseek'? Or can > anyone suggest a work around. I need a script to be able to find out > whether qseek is running, in order to start it if it is not, and leave > it running if it is. I am trying again to get this code working > correctly on cygwin as well as linux.
Use procps. It's much more capable, e.g. "procps -f". I personally use something resembling "alias ps='procps aux --forest'". By the way this very same question came up just the other week. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/