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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

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