Hi,

I am trying to write a script to turn on and off bluetooth.

At the moment I have two seperate scripts to do this, but I am trying to combine them into one script.

I want to check for the kbluetooth process, if this is running then I want to kill it and run rc.bluetooth stop

if it isn't running i want to run rc.bluetooth start and the start kbluetooth.

I have found this on the net that could check for the existence of hte kbluetooth process:

but I wanted to know if there was a better way of doing it, by checking PID's and how would I find the pid of kbluetooth?

Stuart

empty string and exit status 1, if the kbluetooth process it's not running, PID and exit status 0 otherwise.

two variants: 1)
or 2)

This way you can get rid of grep output
Hope this helps
Ciao

I recommend the method mentioned by iiv, but adding the -x parameter:

Moreover, the pkill command does something similar but sending a signal to the processes it finds, so something like:

Should be what you need.