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Could someone please provide help for me.

I tried to start writing a shell script but am getting hung up with this issue. I need to grep commands "adb shell ps" and find in it 3 processes with names:

  1. proc1
  2. proc2
  3. proc3

And if these processes are present in the grep output, then continue work with the script, else check the grep 5 times within the interval - 30 seconds. Finally - if my process doesn't start, just exit form script.

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closed as unclear what you're asking by Gilles, jasonwryan, Evan Teitelman, Anthon, manatwork Aug 9 '13 at 8:00

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Can you clarify what's the question? You need to find 'adb shell ps' in proc1/2/3 logs or what? Is the process the one you're checking or process's logs ? –  user1293137 Aug 8 '13 at 10:14

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Here's a script that does what I think you're looking for:

#!/bin/bash

cnt=1; found=0;
while [ "$cnt" -le 5 ]; do
  echo "chk#: $cnt"
  if [[ $(pgrep -f "proc1") && $(pgrep -f "proc2") && $(pgrep -f "proc3") ]]; then
    found=1
    break
  fi
  let cnt=cnt+1
  sleep 6
done

[ "$found" -eq 0 ] && exit

echo "found them"

You can change this line out if the proc1, proc2, & proc3 are the actual names of the processes. The above looks for any occurrence of those strings in the command lines.

  if [[ $(pgrep "proc1") && $(pgrep "proc2") && $(pgrep "proc3") ]]; then

The script makes use of pgrep instead of grep since this command can essentially do a ps .. | grep ... in a single command.

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