[CLUE-Tech] Detecting a running process (from script)

[Dale Hawkins]

Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net> writes:

> I remember (quite a few meetings back) where detecting a running process was
> being discussed. I think someone or someones mentioned a flag for either ps
> or grep in which it would reliably filter out the "ps | grep foo". Ring any
> bells? 

I have been using 

$ ps -C process_name

This seems to work for me.

-Dale

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