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If I pause an applications by

killall -STOP

it, is there a way to read this "status" for later use? I want to write a short script that checks if the application is already stopped and if so start it again via

killall -CONT

and if not I want to be able to pause it.

It works like that. With this script you are able to pause and unpause a program.

set shellOutput1 to do shell script "PROCESSNAME='<name of the process>'; GREPPID=$(pgrep $PROCESSNAME); if [ -z $GREPPID ]; then echo '1'; else echo '2'; fi; exit 0"

if shellOutput1 contains "2" then

 tell application "Finder"
 set visible of process "<name of the process>" to false
 end tell

end if

set notificationName to "<program name>"

set shellOutput2 to do shell script "PROCESSNAME='<name of the process>'; GREPPID=$(pgrep $PROCESSNAME); if [ -z $GREPPID ]; then echo '3'; exit 0; else PSSTATUS=$(ps -o state= -p $GREPPID); if [ $PSSTATUS == 'T' ]; then killall -CONT $PROCESSNAME; echo '1'; else killall -STOP $PROCESSNAME; echo '2'; fi; fi; exit 0"

if shellOutput2 contains "1" then

 tell application "Finder"
 set visible of process "<name of the process>" to true
 end tell

 display notification notificationName & " wieder gestartet!" sound name "default"

else if shellOutput2 contains "2" then
 display notification notificationName & " angehalten!" sound name "default"
else if shellOutput2 contains "3" then
 display notification notificationName & " läuft nicht!" sound name "default"
end if

return shellOutput2