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Let's say I want to know the PID of kate editor that is currently running (kate is just an example, it works as described for many programs). So, I execute ps aux | grep kate. Here is the output: ...

# ps -ef | grep gre root 15067 63614 0 11:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto gre Another example # ps -ef | grep sshd root 1186 1 0 Jul26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D root ...

If I want to check if something is running, I do ps aux | grep flamethrower, expecting just to show the processes containing flamethrower in the name. This will always find at least one process, as ...

Problem is: grep the output of ps aux for any instance of firefox, if firefox is already running, open link in new tab, if firefox is not running, start firefox and open the link. Point to be noted ...

I am writing a bash script to check if certain application is running or not. If its dead i will simply restart it. My initial though was, check if there is one pid for that process(which in this ...

I would like to know why ps aux | grep includes the grep command in the output but ps aux | grep "confi[g]" does not. $ ps aux | grep config root 50 0.0 0.0 2548368 5760 ?? Ss ...

I am trying to find number of runs of a script but its always 2 even though only one running. sh 11.sh 1 11.sh already running,exiting.. here is code. ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -c "$0" if [[ `ps ...

I'd like to redirect output from this command: ps -eo pid,comm,cmd,start,etime | grep -i qtcreator > file.txt When I try it, I've also output command grep -i example 2018 qtcreator ...

I would like to have some help writing a script (which should work on FreeBSD where I have sh as default) that should grab a precise string when I do a ps ax | grep bhyve command from the terminal. ...

I am trying to write an init.d script, I am trying to kill a named node process: kill $(ps aux | grep 'eproxy' | awk '{print $2}') The problem is, when running just the ps command on it's own, I am ...

I would like to have some help writing a script (which should works on freebsd where I have sh as default) that should grab a precise character when I do a "ps ax | grep" command from the ...

I have a process originally running in the foreground. I suspended by Ctrl+Z, and then resume its running in the background by bg <jobid>. I wonder how to suspend a process running in the ...

Assuming a simple grep such as: $ psa aux | grep someApp 1000 11634 51.2 0.1 32824 9112 pts/1 SN+ 13:24 7:49 someApp This provides much information, but as the first line of the ps ...

Let's say I'm running a script (e.g. in Python). In order to find out how long the program took, one would run time python script1.py Is there a command which keeps track of how much RAM was used as ...

Why do brackets in a grep pattern remove the grep process from ps results? $ ps -ef | grep XXXX [...] XXXX [...] grep XXXX $ ps -ef | grep [X]XXX [...] XXXX