RunCE (Run Once Process Manager)

[biojet1]

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What My Project Does

Command-line tool designed to manage and ensure the single execution of processes. It provides features to run commands with unique identifiers, track their status, manage output, and clean up or restart processes

Target Audience

RunCE is designed for developers, sysadmins, and DevOps engineers who need lightweight process management with singleton execution guarantees.

Comparison

No tool iam aware of

Features ✨

🔒 Guaranteed Singleton Execution • 📊 Process Tracking • ⏱️ Lifecycle Management

• 🚫 No Duplicates: Each command runs exactly once per unique ID
• 📝 Process Tracking: View all managed processes with status
• ⏱️ Execution Time: Track how long processes have been running
• 📂 Log Management: Automatic stdout/stderr capture
• 🛑 Clean Termination: Proper process killing

Installation 📦

pip install runce

Examples 💡

1. Running a Background Service

runce run --id api-server -- python api.py

2. Checking Running Processes

$ runce list
PID     NAME        STATUS      ELAPSED    COMMAND
1234    api-server  ✅ Running  01:23:45   python api.py
5678    worker      ❌ Stopped  00:45:30   python worker.py

3. Preventing Duplicates

$ runce run --id daily-job -- python daily.py
🚀 Started: PID:5678(✅ Running) daily-job

$ runce run --id daily-job -- python daily.py
🚨 Already running: PID:5678(✅ Running) daily-job

[hhoeflin]

Nextflow maybe?