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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Retrieving PID from a file Post 302141004 by appleforme1415 on Wednesday 17th of October 2007 06:42:06 AM
Old 10-17-2007
Retrieving PID from a file
Hello

I need to retrieve the content of a file in the shell script file(.sh file).
I store the Process ID of the a process in file.Only the PID is available in that file.

Inside the shell script i want to retireve the content(PID) and need to check for the existence of the Process.Basically i use this mechanism to make sure a process is not started more than once in a machine.

Kindly let me know how to retrieve the content of a file inside shell script and assign that content to a variable.
Last edited by appleforme1415; 10-17-2007 at 09:02 AM..
 

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hotswaprc

HOTSWAPRC(5)							File Formats Manual						      HOTSWAPRC(5)

NAME

       hotswaprc - configuration file for  hotswap

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/hotswaprc is the global configuration file for the hotswap utility.

       It  allows system administrators to specify arbitrary shell scripts to be run after a device is inserted, as well as before and after it is
       removed. Scripts are selected according to the model name retrieved from the device. This is particularly helpful for automatic	configura-
       tion of CD-RW drives, which require SCSI emulation and bypass normal access via the IDE subsystem.

       hotswaprc  is  implemented  as  an  Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) application.  XML documents are structured using elements of the form
       <tag-name> content <tag-name>. A Document Type Definition (DTD) describes the possible content of each element.

       Please refer to the XML specification for more information. The hotswap distribution also contains an example file,  doc/hotswaprc.example,
       which includes the DTD for the configuration file format.

ELEMENTS

       <hotswap>
	      This is the root element of the document. Each valid hotswaprc must contain exactly one <hotswap> element. The <hotswap> element may
	      contain an arbitrary number of <device> elements.

       <device>
	      The configuration file contains one <device> element for every device for which scripts are defined. The <device>  element  is  com-
	      posed of the following elements in this order: <name>, <post-insert>, <pre-remove>, <post-remove>. All but <name> are optional.

       <name> The content of this element is the model identification string of the IDE device the current <device> element refers to.

       <post-insert>
	      Contains the shell script that is to be executed after the device has been inserted and registered with the kernel.

       <pre-remove>
	      Contains the shell script that is to be run before hotswap attempts to unregister the device.

       <post-remove>
	      Contains the shell script that is to be run after the device had been unregistered.

REPORT BUGS

       Report bugs to t.stadelmann1@physics.ox.ac.uk.

AUTHOR

       Written by Tim Stadelmann.

SEE ALSO

       hotswap(1), xhotswap(1).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Tim Stadelmann.

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2 or
       any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

								26th November 2002						      HOTSWAPRC(5)
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