[ale] Quick script question

[Jason Day]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:59:38PM -0500, Douglas Bridges wrote:
> I am trying to write a script to do something simple, but I have run across a 
> little problem.  My script is trying to fire off a program with many 
> permutations of parameters. When it receives a valid parameter, it fires up a 
> GUI.  When it gets an invalid parameter, it errors out returning an error 
> code ($? = 1).  How can I check to see if the GUI was fired up in a bash 
> script so that I can automatically try all of these different parameters.  
> The GUI fires up within 2 seconds, so if I don't get an error code within 
> that time, I can kill the process and assume it worked.

success=`ps x | grep <name of GUI> > /dev/null` ?

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