An easier way to check for a process already executing is the pidof
command.
if pidof -x "abc.sh" >/dev/null; then
echo "Process already running"
fi
Alternatively, have your script create a PID file when it executes. It's then a simple exercise of checking for the presence of the PID file to determine if the process is already running.
#!/bin/bash
# abc.sh
mypidfile=/var/run/abc.sh.pid
# Could add check for existence of mypidfile here if interlock is
# needed in the shell script itself.
# Ensure PID file is removed on program exit.
trap "rm -f -- '$mypidfile'" EXIT
# Create a file with current PID to indicate that process is running.
echo $$ > "$mypidfile"
...
Update:
The question has now changed to check from the script itself. In this case, we would expect to always see at least one abc.sh
running. If there is more than one abc.sh
, then we know that process is still running. I'd still suggest use of the pidof
command which would return 2 PIDs if the process was already running. You could use grep
to filter out the current PID, loop in the shell or even revert to just counting PIDs with wc
to detect multiple processes.
Here's an example:
#!/bin/bash
for pid in $(pidof -x abc.sh); do
if [ $pid != $$ ]; then
echo "[$(date)] : abc.sh : Process is already running with PID $pid"
exit 1
fi
done