Check if process is running (using process name)

Question

Is there anyway in Go to check if a proces is running by searching by process name? I see ways to do it with PID, however I don't have the PID to search by. Thanks.

Answer 1

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-10.html, Find PID of a Process by Name without Using popen() or system()

No direct way available. You can use os/exec with pidof or pgrep to do this. Or read into procfs.