Questions tagged [pgrep]
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pgrep -f exits with 1
RUNNING_APPS=$(pgrep -f "somePattern")
echo $?
#results in
1
How can I make my command pass with exit code 0?
makozaki
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pgrep -f matches on first 4096 characters only
pgrep on a Ubuntu 19.10 matches on a cmd line of about 10000 characters just fine, but the same version (see below) of pgrep on Debian 10 (buster) greps only on the first 4096 characters.
Is there a way to make the Debian version match on the whole…
Evgeniy Berezovsky
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How to get a list of process ids of long command names, not command line parameters?
Since there's a 15-character limit on the length of process names in pgrep, I've been using pgrep -f to give me a list of process id's of running commands with longer names. However, it includes the full command line parameters, and this gives wrong…
NewtownGuy
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