这个例子是在man flock中解释的，但它需要一些改进，因为我们应该管理bug和退出代码:

   #!/bin/bash
   #set -e this is useful only for very stupid scripts because script fails when anything command exits with status more than 0 !! without possibility for capture exit codes. not all commands exits >0 are failed.

( #start subprocess
  # Wait for lock on /var/lock/.myscript.exclusivelock (fd 200) for 10 seconds
  flock -x -w 10 200
  if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then echo Cannot lock!; exit 1; fi
  echo $$>>/var/lock/.myscript.exclusivelock #for backward lockdir compatibility, notice this command is executed AFTER command bottom  ) 200>/var/lock/.myscript.exclusivelock.
  # Do stuff
  # you can properly manage exit codes with multiple command and process algorithm.
  # I suggest throw this all to external procedure than can properly handle exit X commands

) 200>/var/lock/.myscript.exclusivelock   #exit subprocess

FLOCKEXIT=$?  #save exitcode status
    #do some finish commands

exit $FLOCKEXIT   #return properly exitcode, may be usefull inside external scripts

你可以用另一种方法，列出我过去用过的过程。但这比上面的方法要复杂得多。你应该按ps列出进程，按其名称过滤，附加过滤器grep -v grep清除寄生虫，最后按grep -c计数。和数字比较。这是复杂而不确定的

另一个选项是通过运行set -C来使用shell的noclobber选项。如果文件已经存在，那么>将失败。

简而言之:

set -C
lockfile="/tmp/locktest.lock"
if echo "$$" > "$lockfile"; then
    echo "Successfully acquired lock"
    # do work
    rm "$lockfile"    # XXX or via trap - see below
else
    echo "Cannot acquire lock - already locked by $(cat "$lockfile")"
fi

这会导致shell调用:

open(pathname, O_CREAT|O_EXCL)

自动创建文件，如果文件已经存在则失败。

根据BashFAQ 045上的评论，这可能在ksh88中失败，但它在我所有的shell中都有效:

$ strace -e trace=creat,open -f /bin/bash /home/mikel/bin/testopen 2>&1 | grep -F testopen.lock
open("/tmp/testopen.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3

$ strace -e trace=creat,open -f /bin/zsh /home/mikel/bin/testopen 2>&1 | grep -F testopen.lock
open("/tmp/testopen.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3

$ strace -e trace=creat,open -f /bin/pdksh /home/mikel/bin/testopen 2>&1 | grep -F testopen.lock
open("/tmp/testopen.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3

$ strace -e trace=creat,open -f /bin/dash /home/mikel/bin/testopen 2>&1 | grep -F testopen.lock
open("/tmp/testopen.lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3

有趣的是pdksh添加了O_TRUNC标志，但显然这是多余的: 要么创建一个空文件，要么什么也不做。

如何进行rm取决于您希望如何处理不干净的出口。

在干净退出时删除

新的运行失败，直到导致不干净退出的问题得到解决，并手动删除锁文件。

# acquire lock
# do work (code here may call exit, etc.)
rm "$lockfile"

在任何出口删除

只要脚本尚未运行，新的运行就会成功。

trap 'rm "$lockfile"' EXIT

如果flock的限制，这已经在这篇文章的其他地方描述过了，对你来说不是问题，那么这应该是有效的:

#!/bin/bash

{
    # exit if we are unable to obtain a lock; this would happen if 
    # the script is already running elsewhere
    # note: -x (exclusive) is the default
    flock -n 100 || exit

    # put commands to run here
    sleep 100
} 100>/tmp/myjob.lock 

这将工作，如果你的脚本名称是唯一的:

#!/bin/bash
if [ $(pgrep -c $(basename $0)) -gt 1 ]; then 
  echo $(basename $0) is already running
  exit 0
fi

如果scriptname不是唯一的，这在大多数linux发行版上都有效:

#!/bin/bash
exec 9>/tmp/my_lock_file
if ! flock -n 9  ; then
   echo "another instance of this script is already running";
   exit 1
fi

来源:http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/045

我使用onlineer @脚本的开头:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $(pgrep -afc "$(basename "$0")") -gt "1" ]]; then echo "Another instance of "$0" has already been started!" && exit; fi
.
the_beginning_of_actual_script

在内存中看到进程的存在是很好的(不管进程的状态是什么);但它对我很有用。

又快又脏?脚本顶部的一行代码可以工作:

[[ $(pgrep -c "`basename \"$0\"`") -gt 1 ]] && exit

当然，只要确保您的脚本名称是唯一的。：）