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Old 03-28-2006
PID in BASH
In a shell script, in need to execute a proccess in background, do some jobs then kill that process. ie,

Code:
someproc parameter1 &
somescript.sh
kill pid_of_the_proc_in_the_first_line

How can can get the PID of the process I'm invoking in the first line?
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Old 03-28-2006
Code:
someproc parameter1 &
myPID=$!
somescript.sh
kill ${myPID}

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