Dave Phillips: > > Greetings, > > I'd like to add some conditional tests to my simple scripts. For > example, I want to query the system to determine whether JACK is already > running. If it is, I'll run an app (e.g. xine or AlsaPlayer) configured > for JACK. If JACK is not running, I'll run the app without it. > > So how do I test for JACK in a simple bash shell script ? > Hi, This seems to work: if jack_lsp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then echo "running" else echo "not running" fi I'm not sure if its the best way though. (what if jack_lsp changes in a later version?) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
