On 9/5/05, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> >You can add -v to the grep command line, it will
> >reverse its function.
> >
> It may help this particular case, but -v reverses the search criteria,
> not the overall result.
>
> Take a file that has the two lines
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Shell programing question":
> will return 0 if it's the right program and 1 if it's not. In fact,
> that's exactly my problem. I want the "0" and "1" to be reversed. If I did:
Is that your onl
Alex Shnitman wrote:
>You can add -v to the grep command line, it will
>reverse its function.
>
It may help this particular case, but -v reverses the search criteria,
not the overall result.
Take a file that has the two lines:
1
2
Doing "grep 1 file" will result in "0" (found), while doing "grep
> (readlink /proc/`cat /var/run/pid`/exe | grep -q
> progname)
>
> will return 0 if it's the right program and 1 if
> it's not. In fact,
> that's exactly my problem. I want the "0" and "1" to
> be reversed. If I did:
You can add -v to the grep command line, it will
reverse its function. Or replac
Hi all,
I have a shell programing question. I want to write a test that runs a
certain background program if it doesn't already exist. What I want to
test is this:
If the pid file doesn't exist
or
The pid file relates to a non-existing process
or
The process is not what I'
