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shell scripting and pid control
Sorry chaps, this should have been in the general Unix forum, and I found the answer there in the archives...- Jackled
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- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
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How do I get the PID for a process started in a shell script?
I personnally find $! much more useful than $$. This allows me to record automatically the pid of a process that I start in a script, so that later I can check the status or kill that process, referring to its pid. As in perl the $! has another meaning, (this variable is basically the last...- Jackled
- Post #8
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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shell scripting and pid control
I am trying to develop a simple way to get the pid of a process once it is started. If you start a process in background with the "&", you then get its pid in stdout. But if I run this in a script, let's say a script called "test": #!/bin/bash sleep 60 & > test.log 2>&1...- Jackled
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- Forum: Linux (client/desktop)
