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[Brandon Jardine <brandon.jardine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sure,

you can do something like this too (in python)

import commands
output = commands.getoutput('ps -A')
if 'firefox' in output:
    print "Firefox is running!!"


Cheers
-
Brandon Jardine



On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 00:19, Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This seems to be a shorter method of doing the same task:
>
> ps -C firefox
>
> This is probably more efficient, but it takes all the strings literally.
> For example, ps -C chromium doesn't see Chrome, because it is running
> with an argument or something.
>
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