Hi,all

I need to put a check before running the script that if its already running then exit. I used below code but still failed to catch the issue. Can anybody help me ? 

our ($CHECKRun,$localtime);

$localtime=`date +%c`;
chomp($localtime);
$CHECKRun=`ps aux | grep -i "/home/shekar/myscript.pl" `;
chomp($CHECKRun);


print "I HAVE ps output|$CHECKRun|\n\n\n___________\n\n";

$CHECKRun=`ps aux | grep -ic "/home/shekar/myscript.pl" `;
chomp($CHECKRun);
if($CHECKRun gt 4) {
        print "got value of |$CHECKRun|, |CALLED ON |$localtime| looks
+ like Script already running...\n";
        exit;
}

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Here myscript.pl is the script which has this code inside.
I used count as 4 because, whenever script is executed it gave me 4 as number so used 4 as counter.
This chunk of code is part of big script.Can anybody tell me where i am wrong?

Thanks,

In reply to How can i check my script is already running? by shekarkcb

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