Bash - Check Process Example - From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708715/check-if-program-is-running-with-bash-shell-script - Cacher Snippet

4/21/2017 - 4:37 PM

Bash - Check Process Example - From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708715/check-if-program-is-running-with-bash-shell-script

Bash - Check Process Example - From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708715/check-if-program-is-running-with-bash-shell-script

check-process-example.sh

#!/bin/bash

check_process() {
  echo "$ts: checking $1"
  [ "$1" = "" ]  && return 0
  [ `pgrep -n $1` ] && return 1 || return 0
}

while [ 1 ]; do 
  # timestamp
  ts=`date +%T`

  echo "$ts: begin checking..."
  check_process "dropbox"
  [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "$ts: not running, restarting..." && `dropbox start -i > /dev/null`
  sleep 5
done