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Offline bigpcman

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What does "pidof jwm >/dev/null" in "pidof jwm >/dev/null && jwm -restart" do?
« on: June 03, 2009, 04:33:27 PM »
TC2.0rc4 - In jwm_restart, what does "pidof jwm >/dev/null" in "pidof jwm >/dev/null" && jwm -restart" do?
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Re: What does "pidof jwm >/dev/null" in "pidof jwm >/dev/null && jwm -restart" do?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2009, 04:41:27 PM »
It checks if a process named jwm exists
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Re: What does "pidof jwm >/dev/null" in "pidof jwm >/dev/null && jwm -restart" do?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2009, 05:09:06 PM »
Quote from: curaga on June 03, 2009, 04:41:27 PM
It checks if a process named jwm exists

I had forgotten the obvious - && will execute the second command if the first one succeeds.
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