Best way to check that a process is running on a Unix system?

[Arthur Pemberton]

Hello list,

What is the best way to check that a process is running (or better yet
number of instances) based on the name of the process? Would have to
work on a unix/linux system.

Thank you.

 

[Eriol]

What is the best way to check that a process is running (or better yet
number of instances) based on the name of the process? Would have to
work on a unix/linux system.

Did you try pidof?

Bye,
Eriol