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Many a times we would want to write up a script to start the selenium server using a shell script… So here is the script     #!/bin/sh # # @Author – Sirisha # @Date   - May 29 2012 # Script to start the Selenium Server on a given host #   # Defined the hostname hostname=somehostname # Defined the path to the selenium server serverPath=~/seleniumServer/ # Define the Selenium Server version jar server=selenium-server-standalone-2.12.0.jar # Define the Search String for the server SERVICE_STRING="'java -jar $server'"   # Clear the terminal clear   echo "service string is: $SERVICE_STRING" echo "Starting Selenium Server on $hostname"   # Run the command to get the process list ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep selenium   # Check if the Selenium Server is already running if [ $? -eq 0 ] then     echo "$server is running, everything is fine" else     echo "$server is not running"  ...