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Identify Tasks/Process which are 7 days old in linux

How can I identify the processes running since 7 days in Linux?
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How to kill the (last - 1) PID with bash

I know how to kill the last process with kill $! However I would like to kill the last−1 process, i.e. not the last one, but the one before the last one. I tried kill $$(($! -1)) but ...
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Why does bash show 'Terminated' after killing a process?

Here is the behaviour I want to understand: $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 392 ttys000 0:00.20 -bash 4268 ttys000 0:00.00 xargs $ kill 4268 $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 392 ttys000 ...
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Bash script wait for processes and get return code

I am trying to create a script which will start many background command. For each background command I need to get the return code. I have been trying the following script : #!/bin/bash set -x ...
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Forking two interactive bash processes causes parent process to stop or second bash to go background

If you fork (exec) two interactive bash processes within same parent process (from different threads) causes that parent process becomes stopped or second interactive bash goes to background which ...
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$BASHPID And $$ differ in some cases

I'm reading "BASH pocket guide of Oreilly". It said: The process ID of the current Bash process. In some cases, this can differ from $$. Above explanation , explained $BASHPID variable. ...
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How to ensure a process has started reading a file before continuing?

I'm trying to write a command to test that data is written to a file. My first approach was: Start reading in the background. Write some data to the file. Wait for the reader to find a result. ...
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Can I transfer running process from dead ssh [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? I have started (as expected) a long copy process from ssh shell (putty) which died due to ...
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How to view the output of a running process in another bash session?

I have left a script running on a remote machine from when I was locally working at it. I can connect over SSH to the machine as the same user and see the script running in ps. $ ps aux | grep ...
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receiving command as a parameter in bash

I have a following simple script called single-instance that executes the given command if there is no process under that command running. If I hard-code the command after the else statement, it has ...
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Get PID of a function executed in the background

#!/bin/bash function abc() # wait for some event to happen, can be terminated by other process { sleep 3333 } echo "PID: $$" abc & echo "PID: $$" I need to retrieve the pid of this function, ...
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bash: disable new process PID message

It may look like this: [2] 2847. I guess the first digit is just an enumeration of processes created from the shell. The second is the PID. Anyway, I never care about that information so it is just ...
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Quick and dirty way to run a process more than once

I am looking for very simple bash script that would allow me to launch a process a few times. What's essential to me is that after the processes terminate, everything will clean up automatically. ...
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How do you prevent user from opening a program?

I'm trying to write a script which prevents the concerned user from opening programs (mostly internet browsers) from being run during a certain time (like 1000 to 1200 hrs). This is like a ...
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Why is the following command killing a system?

Anyone understand the following code , running in bash ? :(){ :|:& };: It seems to be a "fork" bomb on Linux.
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add “check if fetchmail is running” to this script

while ! postqueue -p | grep -q empty; do sleep 1 done killall wvdial this script checks if my mail queue is empty, then disconnects my modem. now i would like to add also a checking to fetchmail ...
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How can I test if a program is running from within a script

Let's assume that another user started a bunzip process, and I have a script that I'd like to start running after that bunzip finishes. What's the best way to check from inside my script that the ...
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How to run java process to be seen not as 'java…' in processes list?

Is it possible to run a Java process in Linux in a way that it could be seen in ps as some sort of alias? It would be easier to restart it when it is down.
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All about ssh ProxyCommand

I am looking for an in-depth explanation of the following ProxyCommand, down to the nuts and bolts of its operation, please. Can you kindly completely dissect it for me and improve on it if you can? ...
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How to know how long a process has been running? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to check how a long a program has been running? I am interested in doing this purely using bash.
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Can you specify a separate trap in a subshell created with ()?

I'm writing a script that starts a subshell to go off and do some work. In a special case, the script needs to tell the subshell to cleanly stop what it's doing and exit early. However, my ...
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A tee >( process ) is truncating its stdout when writing a file

When I use tee to pipe stdout directly to a "specific block of code" (which then writes the modified data to a file), I always get the full complement of exptected output lines in the file. ...
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How can I close a terminal without killing its children (without running `screen` first)?

sometimes I run an app in the gnome-terminal, but then I suddenly have to restart gnome or something. I guess the answer to the question is also useful then I want to disconnect from SSH where ...
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Bash script to find and kill a process with certain arguments?

I want a script which kills the instance(s) of ssh which are run with the -D argument (setting up a local proxy). Manually, I do ps -A | grep -i ssh, look for the instance(s) with -D, and kill -9 ...