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Finding out process id in a scipt

Hi,

If in a shell script i write a command

ls > bla &
ls

The output is redirected to bla and the next ls starts as first one is going on in background.

I want to find the PID of the first command.

Thanks in advance
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Code:
ls > bla &
echo $!

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Great,

I was looking for just that thing.

Thanks a lot.
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