How to tell if a certain program is running?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 09:51 -0400, Zac Brown wrote:
> You could use pgrep which will return nothing if the process doesn't
> exist and if it does, then it will return the process id(s).

You can also just check the exit code. e.g.

if pgrep firefox >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	echo firefox running
fi
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