Adding a lable name when running a script

[jones33]

Hi,

is it possible to specify a label name for a unix script when running it?

Then when greping for the script afterwards one could just grep for the label name.

I want to be able to uniquely identify different instances of the same script running and I was wondering if I could add a unique label name to the run command when starting the script?

Many thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

 

[Ghodmode]

You could give it a meaningless command-line argument as the "label", then use

ps -ef | grep myLabel | grep -v grep

If your script is already using command line arguments, you'll want to change their number so that the label can be the first one. For example, whatever you've identified as $1 should be $2 so that the label can be $1.

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