[X-Unix] Bash scripting help

[Bill White]

On 11/8/05 11:02 AM, Russell McGaha <RussellMcGaha at direcway.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to check if a process is running before continuing my script (BTW
> I'm a relative new-be at shell scripting)


Russell,

I¹m a shell scripting newbie myself so this may not be what you¹re after,
but:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to exists process "FileMaker
Pro"'

This returns true is FMP is running and false otherwise.

HTH,

-- Bill
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