Hi,
I have a process which is running in background and I want a simple command to find if the process id still running?
How to check if a pid is alive?
Thanks
HI,
You can use the following command:
ps -ef | grep <pid> | grep -v grep
For example process id if the process is: 3447 then you can use the following command
ps -ef | grep 3447 | grep -v grep
and will give output something like this:
[root@localhost ~]# ps -ef | grep 3447 | grep -v grep avahi 3447 1 0 13:17 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [localhost.local] avahi 3448 3447 0 13:17 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper [root@localhost ~]#
Hope this solves your problem.
Thanks
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